US09510495B2
Embodiments include devices and methods of their manufacture. A device embodiment includes a package housing, at least one electronic circuit (e.g., a sensor circuit), a first material, and a second material. The package housing includes a cavity that is partially defined by a cavity bottom surface, and the cavity bottom surface includes a mounting area and a non-mounting area. The at least one electronic circuit is attached to the cavity bottom surface over the mounting area. The first material has a relatively high, first modulus of elasticity, and covers the non-mounting area. The second material has a relatively low, second modulus of elasticity, and is disposed over the first material within the cavity.
US09510494B2
A control device that moves and positions number one and number two takeup members at number one and number two aperture forming positions until the number one and number two cutting points of number one and number two tapes are positioned at number one and number two cutting positions. By doing this, number one and number two unnecessary sections from number one and number two tapes can be processed by reliably being taken into number one and number two apertures of number one and number two takeup members. Then, after cutting number one and number two unnecessary sections, number one and number two takeup members are moved to number one and number two conveyance positions. By doing this, number one and number two tapes can be smoothly conveyed along number one and number two movable conveyance paths of number one and number two takeup members to a splicing position.
US09510491B2
An electromagnetic shield termination assembly includes a wire assembly having an electrically conductive wire. An electromagnetic shield extends coaxially with the electrically conductive wire and covers at least a portion of a circumference of the electrically conductive wire, the electromagnetic shield and the electrically conductive wire covered thereby defining a shielded portion of the wire assembly. A non-shielded portion of the wire assembly extends outward of a terminal end of the electromagnetic shield. A termination device has an electrically conductive housing mounted to the wire assembly about the terminal end of the electromagnetic shield such that a portion of the housing engages a portion of the electromagnetic shield, and wherein the housing provides a flow path for an electrical current flowing in the electromagnetic shield.
US09510481B2
A refrigerant jacket includes a refrigerant cooling member, a cover member and a strength member. The cooling member is constructed of aluminum or aluminum alloy that thermally contacts a heat emitting electrical part, and has a groove portion. A refrigerant tube of a refrigerant circuit fits into the groove portion. The cover member covers the refrigerant cooling member in a state where the refrigerant tube has been fitted into the groove portion. The strength member is higher in strength than the cooling member, and is fixed to the cooling member. The cover member has a cover-side through hole opposing the strength member. The strength member has a cover member fixing screw hole opposing the cover-side through hole. The cover member is fixed to the strength member by a cover member fixing screw that passes through the cover-side through hole and screws into threads of the cover member fixing screw hole.
US09510480B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a case; a support device arranged at the case; a rotating plate articulated to the support device; a driving device; and a heat generating device. The driving device is configured to drive the rotating plate to rotate with respect to the support device; the rotating plate rotates with respect to the support device to generate airflow, the airflow is in a direction parallel to a rotation plane of the rotating plate and away from the support device; and the heat generating device is arranged at a region that the airflow flows through and heat of the heat generating is dissipated by the airflow.
US09510478B2
In some examples, a cooling system includes a silicon substrate defining a first trench, a second trench, and a plurality of channels extending between the first trench and the second trench. The silicon substrate may define a first surface and a second surface substantially opposite to and substantially parallel to the first surface, and each of the plurality of channels may extend substantially parallel to the surface of the silicon substrate. The cooling system also may include a microelectronic device comprising a heat-generating area. The microelectronic device may be attached to the first surface or the second surface of the silicon substrate. In some examples, the plurality of channels may be etched between the first trench and the second trench.
US09510473B2
A display device includes a panel laminated body including a panel laminated body including a plurality of panels stacked together, flexible printed circuit boards each being connected to a corresponding one of respective short sides of the plurality of panels disposed in one of side portions of the panel laminated body, and an extension portion formed in at least a part of the flexible printed circuit boards so as to extend outwardly from a side area of the panel laminated body in a short-side direction of the panels in the side area. At least a pair of the extension portions is electrically connected together in a state where the pair of the extension portions is superimposed on each other and is folded in the side area of the panel laminated body.
US09510466B2
Electronic control apparatus for vehicle using coupling member and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed is an electronic control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a printed circuit board (PCB) configured to electrically control each part of the vehicle and have both sides provided with at least one fixed hole; a connector cover includes a connector part electrically connected and coupled with the PCB and a coupling part; a housing configured of a one-piece slot type and receiving the PCB inserted in a slide form; and at least one coupling member each fastened with at least one fixed hole of the PCB, wherein the PCB is inserted into the housing and the PCB adheres to a bottom side of the housing by the coupling member which is pressed by physically deforming each corresponding surface of the housing corresponding to at least one coupling member.
US09510464B2
A manufacturing method of a circuit board is provided. A circuit substrate having a first surface and at least a first circuit is provided. A dielectric layer having a second surface and covering the first surface and the first circuit is formed on the circuit substrate. The dielectric layer is irradiated by a laser beam to form a first intaglio pattern, a second intaglio pattern and at least a blind via. A first conductive layer is formed in the first intaglio pattern, the second intaglio pattern and the blind via. A barrier layer and a second conductive layer are formed in the second intaglio pattern and the blind via. Parts of the second conductive layer, parts of the barrier layer and parts of the first conductive layer are removed until the second surface of the dielectric layer is exposed, so as to form a patterned circuit structure.
US09510463B2
A coreless packaging substrate is provided, which includes: a dielectric layer having opposite first and second surfaces; a first circuit layer embedded in the dielectric layer and exposed from the first surface of the dielectric layer, wherein the first circuit layer has a plurality of first conductive pads; a plurality of protruding elements formed on the first conductive pads, respectively, wherein each of the protruding elements has contact surfaces to be encapsulated by an external conductive element; a second circuit layer formed on the second surface of the dielectric layer; and a plurality of conductive vias formed in the dielectric layer for electrically connecting the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer. The present invention strengthens the bonding between the first conductive pads and the conductive elements due to a large contact area between the protruding elements and the conductive elements.
US09510456B2
A transparent conductor includes a transparent substrate, a conductive mesh, and an insulating protective layer, which are laminated in that order, wherein the conductive mesh is formed on the transparent substrate, and a surface of the insulating protective layer away from the transparent substrate is flat. Such transparent conductor avoids the use of indium tin oxide, thus the cost of the transparent conductors is lower. A method of preparing the transparent conductor is also provided.
US09510449B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of electronics and, in particular, to a multi-layer printed circuit board and a method for fabricating the same. The circuit board is able to avoid the problem that signal transmission performance is affected by a plated hole. The multi-layer printed circuit board includes at least two layers of core plates that are adhered, where a circuit mechanical part is disposed on the core plates, a via is also provided on the core plates, and a metal column is embedded in the via, where one end of the metal column is connected to a corresponding position on an antenna feeder circuit mechanical part disposed on the core plate, and the other end is connected to a corresponding position on an antenna feeder circuit mechanical part disposed on an adjacent layer of the core plate. The method is used for fabricating a multi-layer printed circuit board.
US09510445B2
In the present invention, a copper electrode having a nanohole structure is prepared by using a polymer substrate in the form of nanopillars in order to avoid fatigue fracture that causes degradation of electrical and mechanical properties of a flexible electrode during repetitive bending of a typical metal electrode. The nanohole structure may annihilate dislocations to suppress the initiation of fracture and may blunt crack tips to delay the propagation of damage. Therefore, the nanohole electrode exhibits very small changes in electrical resistance during a bending fatigue test.
US09510443B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including dielectric layers; and first and second internal electrodes having at least one of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween. Each of the first internal electrodes includes a first electrode plate and a first lead connected to the first electrode plate, the first lead being exposed to a first surface of the ceramic body and having a bent shape. Each of the second internal electrodes includes a second electrode plate and a second lead connected to the second electrode plate, the second lead being exposed to a second surface of the ceramic body and having a bent shape. A portion of the first lead overlaps the second electrode plate, and a portion of the second lead overlaps the first electrode plate.
US09510437B1
A method and system for algebraically generating precise magnetic potentials along the axis of a cold atom waveguide. Sets of paired conductors may provide control over the even and odd contributions of the polynomial potential along one axis of the trap. Various field configurations can be realized, including double wells, triple wells, and filtered harmonic traps with suppression of higher order terms. An example of a system disclosed herein may be a suitable dual-layer atom chip, with modest experimental requirements, that allows independent tuning of terms up to fourth order.
US09510429B2
Methods and apparatus related to a LED-based lighting unit (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) having a radar for presence detection. A radar circuit (140; 240; 340A; 340B; 440) may be electrically coupled to conductive wiring (25; 125; 225; 325; 425) of the LED-based lighting unit that at least selectively powers the radar circuit and at least selectively powers the LEDs. In some implementations, an antenna coupled to the radar circuit may be formed from the conductive wiring and optionally at least partially isolated from any current flowing through the LEDs.
US09510428B2
The present invention is directed to a lighting control system with a motion sensor unit that electrically couples to a load circuit through a latching relay or load controller for turning on and off lights. The motion sensor unit is configured to power down to draw zero power after a time delay, when motion is longer detected within the work space by the motion sensor unit. The lighting control system further includes a control circuit that reinitiates or turns the motion sensor back on through a switch device.
US09510424B2
The invention relates to a method for at least partially deconstructing a flat display screen (10), the screen (10) comprising: —a substantially flat faceplate (11) comprising four side edges and a visible part (12) on a front face of the screen (10), said visible part (12) being intended to display images, —a frame (13) that mounts the faceplate (11) by partially covering at least the front face and two side edges, the method comprising steps of: —disposing (100) a single screen (10) on a holding device (20), and —clamping (110) the single screen (10) to the holding device (20). The method is essentially characterized in that it also comprises a step of: —effecting plastic deformation (120) of the frame (13) while maintaining the integrity of the faceplate (11).
US09510423B1
A dual color series-wired LED light string formed of a plurality of sockets, each of which receives an LED housing containing a pair of LEDs connected in anti-parallel configuration. Each LED socket includes a protective resistive component which is electrically connected across each pair of anti-parallel LEDs of the respective LED housing to protect each LED of the pair from reverse voltage breakdown damage in the event of a failure of the other LED in the housing. The protective resistive component also further serves as a shunt to electrically bypass a failed LED to keep the remaining LEDs in the light string fully illuminated.
US09510421B2
Various embodiments may relate to an electronic ballast for operating at least a first and a second cascade of LEDs, wherein the first cascade of LEDs is designed in such a way that the first cascade of LEDs is not be bridged. In order to provide a target value for a series regulator arranged in series with the LED cascades, a resistance voltage divider is used, which is coupled between the coupling point of the LED cascade that is not bridged and of the LED cascade that is not bridged at one end and the second output connection of the rectifier at the other end.
US09510420B2
Methods and apparatus for changing a DC supply voltage applied to a lighting circuit are disclosed. In specific cases, a constant voltage power supply is used to power an LED lighting circuit in which there are uncertainties within the forward voltages of the LEDs, which in turn creates uncertainty with respect to the current level flowing through the LEDs. To manage these uncertainties, the current flowing through the LEDs is measured and an indication of the current level is communicated to a person who can manually adjust the DC voltage supply applied to the LED lighting apparatus by the constant voltage power supply. Alternatively, an automatic adjustment of the DC voltage supply applied to the LED lighting apparatus by the constant voltage power supply can be performed based upon the measured current level.
US09510408B1
A LED backlight module including a LED string and a driving apparatus is provided. The driving apparatus comprises a sensing resistor, an adjustable voltage-divider circuit, a comparator, a power converter and a control circuit. The sensing resistor is coupled between a cathode of the LED string and a ground potential and generates a feedback voltage. The adjustable voltage-divider circuit generates a reference voltage according to a dividing ratio which is controlled by a first signal set and a second signal set. The comparator compares the feedback voltage and the reference voltage, and generates a control signal accordingly. The power converter provides a DC voltage to an anode of the LED string according to the control signal. The control circuit counts a disable period of a dimming signal to generate the first signal set, and counts an enable period of the dimming signal to generate the second signal set.
US09510392B2
Provided is a communication device including a contactless communication unit that conducts contactless communication, a wireless communication unit that conducts wireless communication, and a control unit that, in a case in which the contactless communication unit detects another communication device, controls activation start of a first communication mode of the wireless communication unit, and controls a connection process for the wireless communication between the contactless communication unit and the other communication device.
US09510386B2
Methods and apparatus are described for monitoring for a radio link failure in a long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) system operated with carrier aggregation. The methods include criteria for determining radio link failure, recovery events, and the actions that a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may take upon the occurrence of such events.
US09510378B2
Systems and methods are presented for connecting related applications over a peer-to-peer wireless connection using a wireless interface module that minimizes the requirements for an application to initiate a wireless connection with another device. In some embodiments, a wireless interface module may be incorporated into mobile devices to provide a simplified instruction set requirement for an application to initiate a wireless connection.
US09510376B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving from a wireless device a request for a network connection and facilitating, in response to the request, a communication session between a wireless access node in communication with the wireless device and a packet data network. Control signals are exchanged between a second network device and a packet data network gateway. The second network device includes a mobility anchoring function and operating in an evolved packet core of a long term evolution system. Eligibility of the wireless communication device to participate in a direct tunnel connection is determined, the direct tunnel allowing transfer of user data packets between the wireless device and packet data network to bypass the mobility anchoring function. Establishment of the direct tunnel connection is facilitated to transfer multiple user data packets between the wireless device and the packet data network.
US09510375B2
A methods and apparatus may be used for accelerated link setup. A method may include a station (STA) acquiring information about an access point of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 network in advance through a previously connected IEEE 802.11 interface and/or an interface other than the IEEE 802.11 network. The STA may use the acquired information during a link setup procedure between the STA and the access point. The information may include a suggestion for a specific procedure to complete the link setup procedure between the STA and the access point.
US09510370B2
A radio base station is provided including a controller that generates a message including identification information of the radio base station and information indicating parameters based on a detected environment. The radio base station also includes a transmitter that transmits the generated message to a communication node.
US09510368B2
A method is provided in a base station for providing feedback to user equipments on reception status of data transmitted by the user equipments. The base station and the user equipments are within a wireless communication system adapted for contention based transmissions. A common identifier is used to identify contention based grants on a physical downlink control channel. Upon successful reception of data from at least one of the plurality of user equipments, dedicated acknowledgement feedback is provided by including an indication of the identity of the at least one user equipment from which data was successfully received in a message to said common identifier on the physical downlink control channel. Related arrangements in a base station, methods in a user equipment, and arrangements in a user equipment are disclosed.
US09510366B2
Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to determine a set of resources available for transmitting an acknowledgement signal in an UpLink (UL) Component Carrier (CC) in response to reception of multiple DownLink (DL) Scheduling Assignments (SAs) transmitted from a base station with each DL SA being associated with a respective DL CC. The UL CC and a first DL CC establish a communication link when the UE is configured for communication over a single UL CC and a single DL CC.
US09510361B2
Embodiments are directed towards a base station, and corresponding method therein, for determining a control timing configuration. The control timing configuration provides a subframe timing for configuring PUSCH and uplink HARQ-ACK control timing for a cell serving a user equipment in a multiple cell communications network. The user equipment is served by a TDD based cell and a FDD based cell. are also directed towards a user equipment, and corresponding method therein, determining the control timing configuration discussed above.
US09510353B2
Embodiments herein relate to a receiver device; a method therein; a transmitter device and a method therein. The transmitter device is configured to transmit to the receiver device a device-to-device synchronization signal during a time window preceding the start of a resource pool. The transmitter device is further configured to transmit a discovery message during the resource pool. The discovery message includes the identity of the transmitter device for enabling the transmitter device and the receiver device to synchronize to each other.
US09510350B2
Physical layer characteristics, e.g., reference signal density, reference signal distribution, data parameters, etc., are defined in the physical layer for sub-frames of a transmission time interval (TTI) allocated to data packet(s) based on the number of allocated sub-frames. The flexibility provided by the solution presented herein enables the associated wireless system to better define those physical layer characteristics necessary to meet signal quality and system requirements without unnecessarily overburdening the system overhead. Thus, the reference signal overhead may be reduced, which leads to reduced system overhead and/or increased spectrum efficiency.
US09510348B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting data in a subframe including two slots in a communication system. Resource allocation information is received at a UE. The UE determines a resource for data transmission based on the resource allocation information, whether hopping is enabled, whether mirroring is enabled, and whether hopping is intra-subframe and inter-subframe hopping or inter-subframe hopping. Data is transmitted via the determined resource from the UE to a Node B.
US09510339B2
Disclosed is a method for a first base station for transmitting a signal to a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a second base station, information related to a plurality of interference measurement resources; applying beamformings corresponding to the plurality of interference measurement resources; transmitting, to the terminal, information that downlink data signal does not get mapped in the plurality of interference measurement resources; and transmitting a downlink signal independent of the beamformings to the terminal from a resource domain which excludes the plurality of interference measurement resources.
US09510335B2
The present description relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transceiving control information for uplink multi-antenna transmission. A method for transmitting control information for uplink multi-antenna transmission according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: attaching a CRC parity bit to a PDCCH payload sequence containing uplink transmission resource allocation information; scrambling the CRC parity bit attached to the payload sequence to a bit sequence which indicates control information for uplink multi-antenna transmission; and transmitting the entirety of the sequence to which the scrambled CRC parity bit is attached to the payload sequence.
US09510334B2
A method of reporting control information in a wireless communication system in which M downlink time divisional duplex (TDD) subframes are associated with an uplink TDD subframe. A user equipment (UE) receives resource allocation information used for a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format. The UE selects a PUCCH format among a plurality of PUCCH formats including the first PUCCH format and a second PUCCH format. The second PUCCH format is selected if the UE receives a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in one of the M downlink TDD subframes on the primary cell. The UE receives a second PDSCH with a downlink assignment index (DAI) in one of the M downlink TDD subframes on the primary cell. The UE does not receive a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) corresponding to the first PDSCH on the primary cell.
US09510332B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for performing periodic CSI reporting available in a system supporting a TDD-FDD aggregation operation and an FDD-TDD aggregation operation. A periodicity and an offset for periodic reporting of channel quality indicator and precoding matrix indicator may be determined based on the cell type of a primary serving cell for a TDD-FDD carrier aggregation and an FDD-TDD carrier aggregation.
US09510331B2
In data transmission between a mobile network and a terminal device an uplink control channel resource is allocated to the terminal device and to at least one further terminal device. Further, a shared identifier is assigned to both the terminal device and the at least one further terminal device. Using the allocated uplink control channel resource, the mobile network receives a scheduling request from the terminal device. In response to receiving the scheduling request, the mobile network sends an uplink grant. The uplink grant is addressed by the shared identifier to the terminal device and to the at least one further terminal device. Further, the mobile network receives uplink data from the terminal device, which is accomplished on uplink resources indicated by the uplink grant.
US09510330B2
Disclosed is a terminal apparatus in which: a decoding section (210) that stores, in a retransmission buffer, downlink data transmitted by each of the plurality of component carriers and decodes the downlink data; and a radio transmitting section (222) that transmits, using a first component carrier of the plurality of component carriers, a response signal for first downlink data received using the first component carrier and a response signal for second downlink data received using a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers. In addition, a second buffer is divided into regions respectively corresponding to retransmission processes based on a specific value determined by a combination of a first configuration pattern that is set in the first component carrier and a second configuration pattern that is set in the second component carrier.
US09510324B2
Disclosed are a method for setting an operating channel in a white space band and a device therefor. Particularly, a method for enabling a first device to set an operating channel in a white space band comprises the steps of: acquiring information on an available TV channel from a geo-location database; and setting an operating channel on the basis of the information on the available TV channel, wherein a center frequency of the operating channel can be set differently according to a TV channel used by an incumbent device among TV channels adjacent to the TV channel on which the operating channel is set.
US09510323B2
An apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system method thereof are disclosed. In a terminal of a wireless communication system, the present invention includes receiving a physical downlink control channel (hereinafter abbreviated PDCCH), receiving a physical downlink shared channel (hereinafter abbreviated PDSCH), and demodulating the PDSCH by interpreting the PDCCH according to a type of a subframe including the PDCCH and the PDSCH.
US09510317B1
A technique for estimating the geo-location of a mobile station, based on signal measurements or other data that are obtained from both the control plane and the user plane. Through the coordination of obtaining signal measurements from both planes, the disclosed method and system make location estimations of greater accuracy possible. A data-processing system is configured to receive requests for location estimates from a location-based services (LBS) client or from a different source. The illustrative data-processing system then coordinates the acquisition of location data across both the control plane and the user plane, and correlates the data. The correlated location data can be subsequently used to generate a location estimate.
US09510316B2
Methods, media, and node-enabled autonomous transport vehicles are described for navigating to a shipping location using a plurality of nodes in a wireless node network. A node associated with the autonomous transport vehicle, such as a mobile master node, detects a signal broadcast from an ID node associated with the shipping location, and instructs the ID node to lower a power level of the broadcast signal. The mobile master node identifies the signal broadcast from the ID node with the lowered power level, and determines a direction of the ID node relative to the mobile master node based upon the detected signal with the lowered power level. The mobile master node then navigates to the ID node associated with the shipping location based upon the determined direction, which may involve providing the determined direction to an input for the vehicle's control system.
US09510315B2
The present invention comprises a system and method for determining an estimated position of a wireless mobile client device operating in a communications environment covered by a wireless local area network. The received signal strength of the wireless mobile client device is measured by one or more access points serving devices in the communications environment. In a preferred embodiment, the error between the received signal strength measured by the access points and the expected received signal strength at a plurality of locations in the communications environment is calculated. The location of the device is determined from the error.
US09510302B2
There is provided a communication device including: a communication unit that receives a beacon for a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service; and a control unit that controls a transmission power to be used for transmission of a radio signal of the second communication service from the communication unit based on location data included in the beacon and indicating a location of a transmission source node of the beacon and a location of an interfered node interfered by the second communication service.
US09510299B1
A first wireless device including a receiver, a signal strength module, a path loss module, and a control module. The receiver receives a first signal from a second wireless device. The first signal includes an indication of a first power at which the second wireless device transmits the first signal. The signal strength module estimates a first signal strength of the first signal. The path loss module estimates a path loss associated with a communication path between the first wireless device and the second wireless device based on the first power at which the second wireless device transmits the first signal and the first signal strength of the first signal received from the second wireless device. The control module controls a second power at which the first wireless device transmits data based on the path loss associated with the communication path between the first wireless device and the second wireless device.
US09510282B2
A personal area network (PAN) coordinator (26) of a medical body area network (MBAN) (36) allocates multi-periodic guaranteed time slots (GTSs) to sensor devices (12, 14) of the MBAN (36). The PAN coordinator (26) includes a controller (40) configured to receive a request for a multi-periodic GTS from a sensor device (12, 14) of the MBAN (36). The request includes a period indicating a periodicity with which the multi-periodic GTS is requested. In response to the request, the controller (40) determines a GTS allocation including a starting frame and transmits a descriptor to the sensor device (12, 14). The descriptor includes information to identify the starting frame.
US09510277B2
A system includes a server; a plurality of wireless networks coupled to the server; and one or more mobile devices coupled to the wireless networks with intermittent access to the wireless networks, the plurality of wireless networks providing data communication between client and server applications over multiple intermittent connections.
US09510261B2
The present application discloses a measurement control method, a user equipment, a control node, and a system, relates to the field of wireless communications, and can reduce handover signaling and improve a handover success rate. The method of the present application mainly includes: receiving measurement configuration information sent by a control node, where the measurement configuration information includes a list of first-type cells, the type of first-type cells, a list of second-type cells, the type of second-type cells, hierarchical cell structure (HCS) priorities, a frequency of first-type cells, or a dedicated parameter for evaluating an event trigger threshold; detecting cell signal quality or signal strength of a cell; and determining, according to the cell signal quality or signal strength and the measurement configuration information, whether to report an event or a measurement result to the control node. The present application is mainly used in a process of mobility management.
US09510260B2
A method for and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system supporting multiple carriers is provided. A wireless device determines that a radio link failure (RLF) or a switch trigger condition is occurred for a cell among the multiple carriers, herein the multiple carriers each is set to a cell each, reconfigures an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) set of the cell that the RLF or the switch trigger is occurred, and determines whether cells of the multiple carriers each is on or off according to the reconfiguring. Thus, more efficient and accurate cell planning schemes are provided to transmit between the small cells and the UE to support inter-cell interference reduction and carrier extensions.
US09510259B2
A method in a first base station (105) for handling a data transferral in a cellular network (100) is provided. The first base station (105) serves a user equipment (125) via a first cell (115). When the first base station (105) obtains an indication that a second cell (120) provides a coverage for the user equipment (125), the first base station (105) sends a message to a second base station (110) serving the second cell (120). The message commands the second base station (110) to prepare for receiving the uplink data from the user equipment (125) via the second cell (120). The first base station (105) also sends a request to the user equipment (125). The request commands the user equipment (125) to prepare for sending the uplink data both via the first cell (115) and via the second cell (120) in respective separate intra frequency transmissions.
US09510257B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing data transfers. The method may include receiving a request to transfer data between a wireless device and a data transfer target, wherein the requested data transfer is associated with a time sensitivity window (TSW), determining whether an opportunity for a peer-to-peer (P2P) data transfer will arise during the TSW, targeting a transfer time from within the TSW for performing the requested data transfer based on the opportunity determination, and transmitting transfer notification data to the wireless device, wherein the transfer notification data includes the targeted transfer time.
US09510253B2
The present disclosure provides a method for determining a reason for too late handover to a Home eNB (HeNB), and the method includes that: after completing the re-establishment link of Radio. Resource Control (RRC) with User Equipment (UE), the HeNB confirms that a Radio Link Failure (RLF) event occurs when the UE is connected with a cell of another eNodeB; the HeNB generates an RLF Indication message and transmits the RLF Indication message to the another eNodeB, wherein the RLF Indication message includes information of a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell currently accessed by the UE; the another eNodeB determines the reason for too late handover of the UE to the HeNB according to the RLF Indication message. The disclosure also provides a system for determining the reason for too late handover to the HeNB. The present disclosure can determine a specific reason for the RLF, and thereby, can be more useful for improving the configuration of related parameters at the network side.
US09510252B2
A method and apparatus for selecting a cell in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a radio resource control (RRC) connection release message including redirection information from a serving cell. The UE determines whether to ignore the redirection information in the RRC connection release message according to a release cause of an RRC connection release and a user preference between a unicast service and a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) service. If it is determined to ignore the redirection information, the UE ignores the redirection information in the RRC connection release message.
US09510238B2
Provided is a media access control processing unit (MAC) sharing method applied to a fifth generation (5G), which is a next generation, mobile communication system and making it possible to efficiently share a plurality of MACs so as to efficiently distribute and process traffic of user equipment (UE).
US09510235B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a congestion control method, a device, and a system. In the embodiments of the present invention, because a gateway device, unlike a gateway device that performs congestion control on all user equipments by using a same control policy in the prior art, performs congestion control on a user equipment according to a real-time location of the user equipment and a real-time congestion situation of a location region in which the user equipment is camping, thereby improving flexibility and accuracy of congestion control.
US09510230B2
A method for a Mobility Management Entity (MME) to control a connection of a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes a first standby method including an MME in a wireless communication system that includes predicting an overload durating time when an overload duration time that is predicted, transmitting to an enhanced Node B (eNodeB) information on the reconnection method of the UE that is decided, wherein the plurality of reconnection methods represent methods for the UE attempting reconnection with the MME after a second standby time that is longer than the first standby time, and an MME reselection method for the UE attempting the reconnection with an MME which is different from the MME.
US09510219B2
Provided are a method and a wireless device for monitoring a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. The wireless device monitors a first downlink control channel in a first search space, and monitors a second downlink control channel in a second search space. The first downlink control channel is modulated by a first reference signal, which is generated on the basis of an identifier of a first serving cell, and the second downlink control channel is modulated by a second reference signal, which is generated on the basis of an identifier of a second serving cell.
US09510211B2
A transceiver station provides wireless resources including at least one communication feature for users in a geographical coverage area. The geographical coverage area includes a plurality of cells, and each of the plurality of cells is associated with a different combination of at least one carrier and at least one sector. The transceiver station includes: a first board having a first L1 processing circuit configured to perform functions associated with providing the at least one communication feature for the user in a first subset of the plurality of cells; and a second board configured to exchange at least control information with the first board. The second board includes a second L1 processing circuit configured to perform functions associated with providing the at least one communication feature for the user in a second subset of the plurality of cells.
US09510204B2
Method of determining fraudulent use based on behavioral abnormality starts with processor receiving first location data and first proximity information from first mobile device. First proximity information includes identification of mobile devices within proximity sensitivity radius of first mobile device. Processor determines whether first location data and first proximity information are included in historical location data and historical proximity information, respectively, associated with first mobile device. When first location data and first proximity information is not included, processor determines whether subsequent location data and subsequent proximity information received from first mobile device over predetermined period of time is included. Processor signals to monitor fraudulent use of first mobile device when subsequent location data and subsequent proximity information received from first mobile device over predetermined period of time is not included in historical location data and historical proximity information, respectively, associated with first mobile device. Other embodiments are described.
US09510195B2
A secure network enabled device has a distinct security module and lacks a human user input interface. The security module is formed in an integrated circuit. The security module is initialized. Data is electronically communicated to and from the secure network enabled device via at least one transceiver. The security module is configured to test the integrity of a subset of the data communicated to the secure network enabled device, and the security module is configured to test the integrity of a transaction protocol, which governs the stream of data bits of the data communicated to the secure network enabled device.
US09510193B2
A beacon message is wirelessly transmitted from a first device. The first device receives a first response to the beacon message, wherein the first response includes identification values associated with a personal identification device. A second device associated with the personal identification device is communicated with. The personal identification device is authenticated based, at least in part, on the identification values and the communication with the second device.
US09510192B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for securing a mobile application are disclosed. Users of the mobile application may be authenticated using a smartphone or other device including a Near-Field Communication (NFC) transfer device capable of NFC communication. An authentication device may be adapted to present itself to the NFC transfer device as an NFC tag and make a dynamic credential available to the NFC transfer device by including the dynamic credential in an NFC tag readable by the NFC transfer device using NFC mechanisms for reading data contents of NFC tags. An access device comprising the NFC transfer device may then provide the dynamic credential to an application server for verification.
US09510190B2
Security in wireless communication networks that employ relay stations to facilitate communications between base stations and mobile stations is enhanced. In one embodiment, resource information provided to one or more relay stations from a base station or another relay station is encrypted prior to being delivered to the one or more relay stations. Only authorized relay stations are allocated an appropriate key necessary to decrypt the resource information. As such, only appropriate relay stations are able to access and use the resource information to effect communications directly or indirectly between the base stations and the mobile stations. In certain embodiments, the resource information is delivered between the various base and relay stations using either unicast or multicast delivery techniques.
US09510185B2
An embodiment method includes receiving, by a virtual card server from a first terminal, a request for enabling a virtual SIM card, where the request for enabling the virtual SIM card includes a virtual SIM card identifier, where the first terminal stores data of the virtual SIM card and a second terminal stores data of the virtual SIM card and determining whether the second terminal has enabled the virtual SIM card in accordance with the virtual SIM card identifier. The method also includes enabling the virtual SIM card for the first terminal when the second terminal has not enabled the virtual SIM card.
US09510179B2
A portable telephone equipped with a communication section used for communication inside and outside a country that includes an acquisition section configured to acquire information on a communications company that can be connected at the time of connection to a base station, a judgment section judges whether or not the acquired information on the communications company indicates a communications company for which flat-rate data communication is accessible, and a connection control section performs connection by the communication section to the communications company indicated by the acquired information on the communications company and sets that flat-rate data communication is accessible when judged YES by the judgment section, and conversely performs connection by the communication section to the communications company indicated by the acquired communications company information and sets that flat-rate data communication is not accessible when judged NO by judgment section.
US09510175B1
Methods and systems for obtaining the location of a caller during an emergency or other telephone call. Before or during a call, a phone system can obtain from one or more sources a subscriber access line identity associated with a subscriber location record that includes a subscriber access line identity attribute and a subscriber location attribute. A phone system can send a query that includes the subscriber access line identity to a subscriber location query system that returns a subscriber location record or a subscriber location to the phone system. The phone system can then display the caller location information to a phone system, an agent or operator so that emergency services can be quickly and accurately dispatched. Using similar procedure and a memory, phone systems can also determine if a subscriber phone has or is changing location. Methods for testing the emergency call capabilities of a subscriber access line.
US09510172B2
A method and apparatus are provided, for accessing a data-capture device in a different domain, by public safety wireless communications equipment, for the purpose of obtaining information at an incident. A dispatch controller of a public safety wireless communications system receives an access token from a server of a non-public-safety network, when an incident occurs. The token allows access to a data-capture device, and is associated with the incident. The dispatch controller sends the token to the data-capture device, receives a data stream, and forwards the data stream to a public safety wireless communication device. The public safety wireless communication device may itself discover and access the data-capture device, and may receive the data stream directly from the data-capture device. The public safety wireless communication device may forward the data stream and/or the access token to other public safety wireless communication devices.
US09510166B1
A method for merging active group calls includes receiving, at a first Push to Talk (PTT) server, a request to merge a first and a second active group call. A first and a second group of PTT clients participate in the first and the second active group call, respectively. The first PTT server may send a first invite message to a first group PTT server which hosts the first group call. In response to the first invite message, the first PTT server may receive a first response message. The first PTT server may send a second invite message to a second group PTT server which hosts the second group call. In response to the second invite message, the first PTT server may receive a second response message. The first PTT server may host a merged PTT group call which includes the first and the second group of PTT clients.
US09510160B2
A method between a controlling server and a participating server, a network, and a server include enhanced signaling via a Multicast-Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) report allowing User Equipment (UE) to communicate MBSFN areas to a controlling server. Thus, the enhanced controlling server's Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) decisions can count all visiting devices in addition to its own in its MBSFN areas. The method, network, and server include new signaling and additional info to provide a participating server with MBSFN areas that will have MBMS activated for a group session. This enhances the participating server's determination of which its visiting devices need unicast bearers. The participating server can add information related to the current MBSFN area of its UE to a message to the controlling server indicating joining the UE to a group.
US09510155B2
The invention relates to compressed data transmission in wireless data communication. Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for transporting residue of vehicle position data via a wireless network. A disclosed method for transporting residue of vehicle position data via a wireless network, includes the steps of: receiving data for updating residue encoding schema from a monitoring server; constructing a residue encoding schema based on the data, thereby producing a constructed residue encoding schema; and storing the constructed residue encoding schema such that the constructed residue encoding schema will become the current residue encoding schema; where: the constructed residue encoding schema is constructed such that each residue of the constructed residue encoding schema corresponds to a code; and the constructed residue encoding schema is constructed such that a residue having a relatively high probability of occurrence corresponds to a code of relatively short length.
US09510153B2
A mobile phone (mobile electronic device) includes an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration, a communication module that performs communication, and a controller. When the number of steps based on the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor has reached a first step count during an ON-state of the communication function of the communication module, the mobile phone shifts from a stop state to a walking state. The controller maintains the ON-state of the communication function of the communication module when the mobile phone shifts from the stop state to the walking state. The controller turns OFF the communication function of the communication module when the number of steps based on the acceleration has reached a second step count larger than the first step count.
US09510150B2
In a method of integrating position information including: position data of an object that will be embedded in a material at a worksite is determined. The position data of the object is recorded, in an information management system. The position data is used to update a record at the information management system, where the record indicates that the object is an embedded object and the position data of the object includes a position of the embedded object. The position of the embedded object is conveyed from information management system to the to a handheld tool at the worksite. The position of the embedded object is displayed on a display device integrated with the handheld tool.
US09510147B1
A method, system and apparatus for wireless device communication. A wireless device may be engaged in a wireless data communication session within a local geographic region. The wireless device may be tracked within the local geographic region. The targeted information may be provided to the wireless device regarding the local geographic region based on the tracking of the wireless device.
US09510142B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a presence service for contact management functions such as user address books. The presence service, in an exemplary embodiment, assembles contact entries into abstract groupings and defines event packages specified by the user that enable the user to be notified about presence information dynamically. For example, a subscribed user may receive presence service information for all entries in the users address book that are in close geographical proximity to the subscribed user. In one variant, the storage and calculation of presence information is performed at a centralized location, thereby sparing the user's device from utilizing unnecessary calculation resources and avoiding unnecessary network bandwidth utilization in order to receive presence information of interest. User device-based variants are also disclosed. Business methods utilizing the aforementioned presence service offerings are also provided.
US09510130B2
An aspect of the present disclosure enables an access point (AP) to conveniently provision multiple wireless devices. In an embodiment, the AP may normally operate in a secure mode to disregard non-secure provisioning requests from wireless devices. However, upon receipt of a request to accept provisioning requests from multiple wireless devices, the AP permits multiple wireless devices to be provisioned via the AP, in response to corresponding provisioning requests received from the respective wireless devices. The request to accept may be generated upon pressing of a push button provided on the AP, which may be referred to as a group provisioning button since multiple wireless devices are provisioned in response to pressing of that button.
US09510123B2
A method for source selective real-time monitoring and mapping of environmental noise, comprising the steps of ● identifying sources in the area; ● designing places for the monitoring stations; ● creating a data collecting and data processing center; ● measuring the noise impact, and observation of the sources with the sensors; ● defining the noise propagation; ● assemblying the monitoring stations including a sound measuring device, a computing unit and a communication unit; ● determining the resultant noise impact prevailing in the respective measurement points; ● determining the sources dominant in the individual moments on the basis of the data of the sensors; ● determining the average noise impact of the respective sources for a longer period; ● obtaining an average noise impact; ● extending the measurement into a noise impact map; ● calculating the effective noise impact of every noise source in every point of the area for every period; ● producing the effective noise impact map of the respective periods.
US09510117B2
A device for measuring sound level, comprising: an inlet opening; a MEMS microphone for measuring sound level; and an external acoustic attenuator with a pressure divider comprising: a first branch between the inlet opening and the membrane of the MEMS microphone via an inlet channel and a resonant cavity; and a second branch between the resonant cavity and a vent chamber via a vent channel.
US09510116B2
A high definition distributed sound system has a master control hub with multiple serially linkable zones each capable of handling multiple serial arrays of powered speakers and a Cat5 cable. Each zone has an audio input, an internal master level controller and multiple powered-speaker outputs. Each of the serial arrays of powered speakers are connected to a corresponding powered-speaker output by the Cat5 cable. All of the zones can be used and controlled independently of the others or any number of them can be serially linked and controlled by their preceding zones. Additional master control hubs can be serially linked in a single system. The system interconnections can be done with Cat5 cable using RJ45 connectors. A low idle current power amplifier circuit offers extremely low levels of quiescent current, allowing a large number of speakers to be connected in one system.
US09510114B2
An audio processing pipeline, for an auditory prosthesis, includes: a common stage, including a common frequency analysis filter bank, configured to generate a common set of processed signals based on an input audio signal; and first and second stimulator-specific stages, responsive to the common set of signals and including first and second frequency-analysis filter banks, configured to generate first and second sets of processed signals adapted for the first and second hearing stimulators, respectively.
US09510095B2
The present invention relates to a sound emitting and collecting apparatus including a sound collecting portion that captures surrounding sound using two microphones, and a sound emitting portion that emits sound from at least one speaker. The apparatus includes a sound source separating portion that extracts a target sound from a sound source in a predetermined direction, based on an input sound signal obtained by capturing surrounding sound using the two microphones, and an emission non-target sound removing portion that removes a non-target sound that is emitted from the speaker and captured by each of the microphones, based on sound source data for the sound emitting portion. The emission non-target sound removing portion is provided on a path that reaches the sound source separating portion. The emission non-target sound removing portion has a structure similar to an acoustic echo canceller, for example.
US09510093B2
A device comprises an interface for transferring an analog telephony signal. Further, the device comprises a compensation circuit which detects a hum signal in the analog telephony signal, generates a compensation signal opposite in phase with the hum signal, and combines the compensation signal with the analog telephony signal.
US09510089B2
An ultrasonic audio system includes a location sensor includes a location tracking module configured to receive information from the location sensor and to determine a location of a listener in a listening environment; a time delay module configured to receive audio content and to generate a plurality of audio content signals, the generated audio content signals comprising a plurality of individual instances of the audio content signal each instance delayed in time relative to the other instances of the audio content signals; and an ultrasonic emitter comprising a plurality of electrically isolated sections, each section having an input electrically coupled to receive one of the individual instances of the audio content signal, and configured to emit an audio-modulated ultrasonic signal from each of the plurality of electrically isolated sections.
US09510084B2
An in-ear monitor that can be customized for particular applications and individuals includes a housing formed from a body and a cover. A dynamic driver is mounted in a cavity in the housing on an angled mounting flange. The dynamic driver is acoustically coupled to a trumpet-shaped sound collector. The trumpet-shaped sound collector is coupled to a main sound bore that exits an opening in a nozzle portion of the body that is inserted into the ear canal of a user. An ambient sound port collects ambient sound and couples it to the sound bore. An additional bass port increases the bass response of the monitor. Ear impressions are used to customize the body of the monitor to the ear of a user and the location of the bass and ambient sound ports can be altered for different applications.
US09510083B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing connections of user devices. For example, two source devices may be configured to maintain a data stream with one another. The data stream may enable the two source devices to identify one or more connections between each other and at least a third device. In response to receiving an event that indicates content to be provided to the third device, the data stream may be used by the source devices to configure their network connections with the third device.
US09510071B2
Communication device includes a housing with a two or more apertures defined therein to form a speaker grille. The apertures are arranged to form one or more aperture sets, each comprised of at least two apertures connected by a fluid channel defined on an internal face of the panel. The fluid channel is comprised of one or more channel segments. Each of the channels segments and the acoustic apertures has a predetermined size and shape which draws fluid through the apertures from an exterior side of the panel, to an interior side of the panel, and then into one of the channel segments. The dimensions and geometry of the channels and apertures are selected to cause the fluid in the channels to exit from the housing at a lowermost one of the acoustic apertures.
US09510068B2
A loudspeaker includes a plurality of electro-acoustic drivers that are configured to be positioned so that an axis running through an acoustic center of the drivers is one of a substantially straight line, J-shape, reverse J-shape, and C-shape. The loudspeaker also includes at least one sensor to detect a configuration of the plurality of electro-acoustic drivers, and a processing device configured to automatically adjust one or more of an equalization and a gain applied to an audio signal output through the electro-acoustic drivers based on the detected configuration.
US09510067B2
A non-bussed control module that receives an audio code is provided. The non-bussed control module includes a tone processing module, a self-diagnostic module, and a reporting module. The tone processing module receives the audio code, and sends a trigger signal if the audio code is received. The self-diagnostic module performs a self-diagnostic test for the non-bussed control module if the trigger signal is received, and generates a diagnostic signal indicative of the self-diagnostic test. The reporting module receives the diagnostic signal and determines a type of fault based on the diagnostic signal.
US09510055B2
Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for providing a social interface for sharing media experience information between households in a community. Users of different households may form the community. The social interface may be provided as an application on a mobile device or an Internet webpage as a portal to the community. The social interface may display a list of households, and a user of the interface may select a household from the list to view information on media being experienced within the household. The selected household may include separate groups of media players configured to render media in synchrony, and the social interface may display, upon selection of the household, a list of the separate groups included in the selected household. The user may then select a group from the list, among other actions, view information on media being rendered by the media players in the selected group.
US09510044B1
Content segmentation, categorization and identification methods are described. Content tracking approaches are illustrated that are suitable for large scale deployment. Time-aligned applications such as multi-language selection, customized advertisements, second screen services and content monitoring applications can be economically deployed at large scales. A client performs fingerprinting, scene change detection, audio turn detection, and logo detection on incoming video and gathers database search results, logos and text to identify and segment video streams into content, promos, and commercials. A learning engine is configured to learn rules for optimal identification and segmentation at each client for each channel and program. Content sensed at the client site is tracked with reduced computation and applications are executed with timing precision. A user interface for time-aligned publishing of content and subsequent usage and interaction on one or more displays is also described.
US09510040B2
The present disclosure is related to methods and systems of displaying content on a television, including: receiving an indication associated with a selection by a user; determining, based on the received indication, a global panel to display via the television; retrieving from memory, a first content information for display in the global panel; and displaying, via the television, the retrieved content information in the specified global panel.
US09510039B2
A display apparatus includes a display screen having a height and a width, a main content controller for providing a main content to the display screen for display, and a secondary content controller configured to cause a secondary content to be displayed on the display screen without obscuring any portion of the main content while the main content is displayed in the main content's original aspect ratio and across one of a full height and a full width of the display screen.
US09510038B2
A method for conducting a media consumption study, includes at a processor of a position marker placed in a study site in a vicinity of a fixed media device; receiving a signal broadcast from a personal measurement device; determining signal information of the received broadcast signal, the signal information including identification information of the personal measurement device, and one or more signal characteristics; comparing the one or more signal characteristics to threshold values; and based on the comparison, determining the personal measurement device is in proximity to the fixed media device.
US09510037B2
In an exemplary method, a media service personalization system directs a media service access device to operate in accordance with a shared mode of operation when user interaction with the media service access device is by way of a shared user input device and directs the media service access device to operate in accordance with a personal mode of operation when user interaction with the media service access device is by way of a personal device specific to a user. In certain examples, the media service personalization system may switch between directing the media service access device to operate in accordance with the shared mode of operation and directing the media service access device to operate in accordance with the personal mode of operation based on a status of a remote control session between the personal device and the shared media service access device.
US09510036B1
Providing content in a content list may include identifying positions within the list where content can be provided. A client agent may automatically play items of content at a first position when determining that the first position is within a displayed region of the content list. The client agent may identify a duration during which the first item is within the displayed region of the list, pause playback of the first item at a point in time when the displayed region of the list is advanced to no longer include the first position, and compare the first duration to a threshold value. The client agent may determine that the displayed region of the list has advanced to a second position and resume playback of the first item near the point in time and at the second position if the duration is less than the threshold value.
US09510035B2
Systems and methods are provided for securely providing a media stream from a server device to a remote player via a communications network. A request for a connection is received from the remote player at the server device via the communications network. In response to the request for the connection, an authorization credential is requested from a central server via the communications network. Further, in response to the authorization credential received from the central server, the media stream between the server device and the remote player can be established over the communications network. At least a portion of the media stream may be encrypted based upon the authorization credential.
US09510026B1
Methods and devices are described for generating a recipe for creating a clip. A recipe request can be received at a server, such as a recipe server. The recipe request may be related to a clip including audio and/or video. The server can generate a recipe for creating the clip using one or more slices of a data source. The recipe can include one or more tasks that can include a data-source task which can include a specification of the data source and slice definitions for the one or more slices. The data source can include a video and/or audio data source. A slice definition can include a slice value and a slice offset for locating a respective slice within the data source. The recipe can then be transmitted from the server.
US09510024B2
A system and method for early media buffering using prediction of user behavior. In accordance with an embodiment, a client device user interface displays a plurality of media options, each of which is associated with a corresponding media content, for example a media channel or video stream, that can be received from a media server system for playing at the device, or at a controlled device. While the user interacts with the user interface, media content associated with regions of the interface can be buffered in preparation for selection and subsequent playing. The client device can include a user interaction sensor, for example a motion, hand/proximity, or heat sensor, which detects when a user is about to interact with the device. The media server system can be triggered to buffer media content associated with one or more neighboring media options on the user interface, in preparation for selection and playing.
US09510023B2
A system comprising a decoder to receive an encoded video stream including video frames including reference and non-reference frames, and decode the reference frames, a processor to receive a request from an end-user rendering device requiring a first reference frame as part of decoding the encoded video stream of the first channel from the middle of a group of pictures of the encoded video stream, wherein a second reference frame is a reference frame for the first reference frame in the received encoded video stream, an encoder to encode the decoded first reference frame yielding a re-encoded first reference frame so that decoding the re-encoded first reference frame is not dependent upon the second reference frame, and a transmitter to transmit the re-encoded first reference frame to the end-user rendering device. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US09510020B2
Techniques for coding video data include coding a plurality of blocks of video data, wherein at least one block of the plurality of blocks of video data is coded using a coding mode that is one of an intra pulse code modulation (IPCM) coding mode and a lossless coding mode. In some examples, the lossless coding mode may use prediction. The techniques further include assigning a non-zero quantization parameter (QP) value for the at least one block coded using the coding mode. The techniques also include performing deblocking filtering on one or more of the plurality of blocks of video data based on the coding mode used to code the at least one block and the assigned non-zero QP value for the at least one block.
US09510013B2
A method for estimation of motion in a series of images captured by an image sensor comprising an estimation of motion vectors at a plurality of points from an image by an operation, done at each of the points from the plurality of points, of minimization of a functional of motion vectors comprising the sum of a data term and a regulation term, where the data term is made up of the product of a weighting term which is a function of the degree of regularity of the estimated motion vectors and a data linkage term which is a function of the spatial-temporal gradients of the brightness near points located in a neighborhood of a point, where the regulation term supplies a result to the minimization operation for the points near which the minimization of the data term does not allow estimating a unique solution.
US09510008B2
A method, system and computer program for decompressing video data, storing the compressed video data in such a way that random access is possible and the data can be mapped efficiently into existing memory systems and interface protocols. The compression is accomplished via lossless compression using an algorithm optimized for video data. Due to the compressed format, data transmission consumes less bandwidth than using uncompressed data and prevents degradation in the decoded video.
US09510007B2
Systems and methods are described including dynamically configuring a shared buffer to support processing of at least two video read streams associated with different video codec formats. The methods may include determining a buffer write address within the shared buffer in response to a memory request associated with one read stream, and determining a different buffer write address within the shared buffer in response to a memory request associated with the other read stream.
US09510000B2
This disclosure describes techniques for performing sample adaptive offset signaling and coding in a video coding process. Techniques of the disclosure include both a merge-based and prediction-based signaling process for sample adaptive offset information (i.e., offset values and offset type). The techniques includes determining offset information for a current partition, comparing the offset information of the current partition with offset information of one or more neighbor partitions, coding a merge instruction in the case that the offset information of one of the one or more neighbor partitions is the same as the offset information of the current partition, and coding one of a plurality of prediction instructions in the case that the offset information of the one or more neighbor partitions is not the same as the offset information of the current partition.
US09509998B1
Conditional predictive multi-symbol run-length coding may include generating a differential residual block based on a residual block and a reconstructed residual block, entropy encoding the differential residual block by determining a symbol order for a plurality of symbols in the differential residual block, grouping the plurality of symbols into at least a first group and a second group based on the symbol order, run-length encoding the plurality of symbols in the differential residual block, by on a condition that a first symbol from the plurality of symbols is associated with the first group, encoding a second symbol from the plurality of symbols, and on a condition that the first symbol is associated with the second group, modifying the second symbol and encoding the modified second symbol.
US09509997B2
A multi-viewpoint image which has been captured with respect to an object from a plurality of viewpoints is coded by setting a base viewpoint among the plurality of viewpoints. An image captured from a viewpoint that is not the base viewpoint is then coded using a reference image selected based on imaging parameters and a parallax.
US09509993B2
An image processing device includes a motion predicting unit that detects, from a criteria image and a reference image, the motion vector of each of blocks constituting an image, a motion compensating unit that generates a motion-compensated image by performing motion compensation on the reference image, using the motion vectors, a correction value calculating unit that calculates a correction value for correcting the pixel value of a current pixel in a current block in the motion-compensated image based on a boundary difference value between the criteria image and the motion-compensated image, and an adding unit that adds the correction value to the pixel value of the current pixel in the motion-compensated image.
US09509990B2
Computer processor hardware receives a first set of adjustment values. The first set of adjustment values specify adjustments to be made to a predicted rendition of a signal generated at a first level of quality to reconstruct a rendition of the signal at the first level of quality. The computer processor hardware processes the first set of adjustment values and derives a second set of adjustment values based on the first set of adjustment values and a rendition of the signal at a second level of quality. The second level of quality is lower than the first level of quality.
US09509984B2
A 3D image display device includes a display unit including a display panel and an optical panel located at a front side of the display panel and changing a path of light. A controller is configured to generate a signal for controlling the display unit. The controller includes an image signal processor which generates an input image signal based on image information containing 2D image information and depth information. The image signal processor generates a 3D image signal based on the 2D image information and the depth information. The image signal processor extracts a low-depth area having a small depth and generates a 2D image signal corresponding to the low-depth area. The display unit displays the low-depth area by a 2D image.
US09509981B2
Architecture that combines multiple depth cameras and multiple projectors to cover a specified space (e.g., a room). The cameras and projectors are calibrated, allowing the development of a multi-dimensional (e.g., 3D) model of the objects in the space, as well as the ability to project graphics in a controlled fashion on the same objects. The architecture incorporates the depth data from all depth cameras, as well as color information, into a unified multi-dimensional model in combination with calibrated projectors. In order to provide visual continuity when transferring objects between different locations in the space, the user's body can provide a canvas on which to project this interaction. As the user moves body parts in the space, without any other object, the body parts can serve as temporary “screens” for “in-transit” data.
US09509979B2
Auto-calibration of stereo cameras installable behind the windshield of a host vehicle and oriented to view the environment through the windshield. Multiple first image points are located of one of the first images captured from the first camera at a first time and matched with first image points of at least one other of the first images captured from the first camera at a second time to produce pairs of corresponding first image points respectively in the first images captured at the different times. World coordinates are computed from the corresponding first image points. Second image points in the second images captured from the second camera are matched to at least a portion of the first image points. The world coordinates as determined from the first camera are used, to solve for camera parameters of the second camera from the matching second image points of the second camera.
US09509973B2
A device for compressing vertex data in three-dimensional (3D) image data includes a codebook design module and a codeword search module. The codebook design module is configured for: grouping residual vectors of vertices in 3D image data for codebook design; generating, for each group of residual vectors, a sub-codebook formed by a specified number of codewords; and sending the generated sub-codebook corresponding to a group of residual vectors to the codeword search module. The codeword search module is configured for: receiving a sub-codebook sent by the codebook design module; searching for a codeword of optimal match of a to-be-compressed residual vector of a vertex in 3D image data to be compressed; and taking an index of the codeword of optimal match and an index of a sub-codebook where the codeword of optimal match is located as compressed data of the vertex. A method for compressing vertex data in 3D image data is further disclosed. With the disclosure, it is possible to save codeword storage space, enhance encoding quality, improve a compression ratio of vertex data, and increase a compression efficiency.
US09509971B2
There is provided an image processing device including a correction unit that searches for an approximate pixel which approximates an occlusion pixel in one parallax map between right-eye and left-eye parallax maps based on the other parallax map and calculates a correction parallax vector of the occlusion pixel based on a parallax vector of the approximate pixel.
US09509964B2
Violet narrowband light Vn and green narrowband light Gn produced by a light source device are supplied to a complementary color type endoscope, and simultaneously applied to an observation object. From a complementary color type imaging device, first mixed pixels and second mixed pixels, which sense both of the violet narrowband light Vn and the green narrowband light Gn, are read out. The light amount ratio Z of the violet narrowband light Vn to the green narrowband light Gn is set within a predetermined range based on an optimal light amount ratio Z0 at which the proportion P1 of a violet narrowband light Vn component within a first mixed pixel signal becomes equal to the proportion P2 of a green narrowband light Gn component within a second mixed pixel signal. This improves color separability of an endoscope system.
US09509963B2
Provided is a dialysis treatment instrument monitoring system capable of communicating with an extrahospital terminal via the Internet without affecting an intrahospital network. In the hospital equipped with a dialysis treatment instrument monitoring system monitoring dialysis treatment instruments including a dialysate feeding device, a bulk powder dissolving device, and a RO device, while a staff is absent in the hospital, the dialysate feeding device and the bulk powder dissolving device perform a dialysis preparation processing of cleaning and sterilizing inside the devices, and stop if an error occurs during execution of the dialysis preparation processing. If an error occurs in any of the dialysis treatment instruments, a network camera takes an image of a display of the dialysis treatment instrument in which the error occurred, and transmits image data to the terminal on the Internet via a mobile router dedicated to the dialysis treatment instrument monitoring system.
US09509957B2
A vision system for a vehicle includes an image sensor and image processor. The image sensor is disposed at the vehicle and has a field of view exterior of the vehicle for capturing image data of a scene forward of the vehicle. The field of view encompasses at least a portion of a road surface ahead of and in the direction of travel of the vehicle. The image processor processes captured image data. Responsive to image processing of captured image data by the image processor, the vehicle vision system determines the presence of an animal on the road surface within the field of view. At least in part responsive to determination of the animal on the road surface within the field of view, the vehicle vision system at least one of (a) generates an alert and (b) controls the vehicle.
US09509952B2
A system, method, and hand held device configured for video conferencing. The hand held device includes display logic operable to determine that a communication includes displayable content. The hand held device further includes a projector in communication with the display logic. The projector is operable to project the displayable content onto a surface. The hand held device further includes a camera in communication with the display logic. The camera is operable to capture an image of the user. The displayable content and the image are utilized for a video communication.
US09509947B2
Provided is a method for transmitting a file during a video call including steps of confirming a first bandwidth for file transmission when a file transmission event is generated during a video call; reducing video call data on the basis of the first bandwidth for file transmission; and transmitting the reduced video call data and the corresponding file data through a second bandwidth for the video call, with the first bandwidth being a partial area or an entire area of the second bandwidth.
US09509938B2
A display unit includes: a main body section including a first front surface, a first rear surface, and a first side surface; one or a plurality of speaker boxes each including one or a plurality of speaker units and a housing containing the one or a plurality of speaker units, the one or a plurality of speaker boxes being selectively attachable with respect to one of the first side surface and the first rear surface in the main body section; and one or a plurality of attaching members commonly used for both at the time of attaching the one or a plurality of speaker boxes to the first side surface and at the time of attaching the one or a plurality of speaker boxes to the first rear surface.
US09509937B2
An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system includes a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft. Each SEB comprises a memory including a shared memory portion for storing entertainment related data and an unshared memory portion. The SEBs cooperate with one another so that the entertainment related data in the shared memory portion of each SEB is available for at least one other SEB.
US09509933B2
A semiconductor apparatus, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera system capable of reducing interference between signals transmitted through adjacent via holes, preventing an increase in the number of the via holes, reducing the area of a chip having sensors thereon and the number of mounting steps thereof. First and second chips are bonded together to form a laminated structure, a wiring between the first chip and the second chip being connected through via holes, the first chip transmitting signals obtained by time-discretizing analog signals generated by respective sensors to the second chip through the corresponding via holes, the second chip sampling the signals transmitted from the first chip through the via holes at a timing different from a timing at which the signals are sampled by the first chip and quantizing the sampled signals to obtain digital signals.
US09509930B2
An image sensor, in particular, for endoscopic applications or miniaturized surveillance cameras. The sensor includes a matrix of image points arranged to provide an image of an explored area of which the shape substantially corresponds to the geometry of the matrix. This sensor consists of a matrix of photodetector cells structured in rows and columns, orthogonal to one another, which has a polygonal shape of which the contour has at least five sides that form part of a closed line, with orthogonal edges and oblique edges. This provides a solution to position the column and row address elements which allows each photoconductive cell to be connected to a current or voltage readout circuit, along oblique edges, such that the space beyond the matrix of photodetector elements is not substantially increased along the oblique edges.
US09509928B2
A bias sampling device includes a reference current generation unit suitable for generating a reference current; a plurality of multi-staged current mirror circuits suitable for receiving the reference current generated from the reference current generation unit and outputting a bias voltage; and a bias sampling unit suitable for performing sampling on a first bias voltage of a first current mirror circuit of the plurality of multi-staged current mirror circuits, wherein the first bias voltage of the first current mirror circuit, which is located prior to a final-staged current mirror circuit of the plurality of multi-staged current mirror circuits, is preset.
US09509927B2
Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including, a pixel array unit, first driving means, second driving means, and third driving means.
US09509924B2
Various techniques are disclosed for providing a wearable apparatus having an integrated infrared imaging module. In one example, a wearable apparatus implemented as a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) may include a shield to protect a user from an external environment, one or more infrared imaging modules, a projector, a processor, and a communication module for projecting a user-viewable thermal image onto a surface of the shield. Such infrared imaging modules may be positioned internal to the SCBA for protection from a hazardous external environment. In another example, a wearable apparatus implemented as a welding mask may include one or more infrared imaging modules, a projector, a processor, and a communication module, so as to project a user-viewable thermal image onto a surface of a shield of the welding mask, while at the same time protecting these components and the welder's face from a harsh welding environment.
US09509920B2
A method of automatically tracking and photographing celestial objects which captures a still image of a celestial object(s) where each celestial object appears stationary simply by making an exposure with a camera directed toward an arbitrary-selected celestial object and fixed with respect to the ground and without using an equatorial, and also a camera that employs this method. The method includes inputting latitude information at a photographic site, photographing azimuth angle information, photographing elevation angle information, attitude information of a photographic apparatus and focal length information of a photographing optical system; calculating movement amounts of the celestial object image relative to the photographic apparatus, for fixing the celestial object image with respect to the predetermined imaging area of an image pickup device, using all of the input information; and obtaining a photographic image by moving at least one of the predetermined imaging area and the celestial object image.
US09509919B2
A system, method, and computer program product for generating a resulting image from a set of images is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an image set that includes a first image of a photographic scene based on a first set of sampling parameters and a second image of the photographic scene based on a second set of sampling parameters, and generating a resulting image based on the first image and the second image according to depth values in a selection depth map. Each distinct depth value in the selection depth map corresponds to a different image in the image set.
US09509908B2
An omnidirectional camera comprises a camera having an image pickup element for acquiring a digital image, an image data processing device for compressing signals from the camera and for converting the signal to an image signal, and an external memory. The image data processing device has a signal processing unit, a writing changeover unit, a set of two first internal memories, a signal compensation unit, a data conversion unit, a third internal memory for temporarily storing the outputted data, and an input/output control unit for controlling the input/output of the data between the third internal memory and the external memory. The writing changeover unit accumulates signals outputted from the signal processing unit in one of the first internal memories until the signals are accumulated to a predetermined amount, and then, the writing changeover unit changes the destination of accumulation and repeatedly accumulates in the other first internal memory.
US09509896B2
Apparatus, imaging method, and focus control apparatus to control autofocus based on contrast signal
A change in a subject is quickly sensed and a focusing lens is driven with degradation in durability and out-of-focus states of output video images due to driving of the focusing lens more than necessary avoided. To achieve the object described above, the invention relates to an imaging apparatus that controls a focusing lens based on a contrast signal provided from a video signal and includes a controller that performs first evaluation based on comparison between the value of the contrast signal and the value of a main threshold, performs second evaluation after the first evaluation based on comparison between the value of the contrast signal and a sub-threshold that is greater or smaller than the main threshold and is set to decrease or increase with the lapse of time, and performs focus control on the focusing lens based on a result of the second evaluation.
US09509893B2
An imaging device includes: an optical system having a lens and a diaphragm; an image sensor having a first pixel and a second pixel which a light that has passed through the optical system enters; and an optical element array positioned between the optical system and the image sensor, the optical system has an optical filter including a first region and a second region having different optical characteristics, the optical element array makes the light that has passed through the first region enter the first pixel and makes the light that has passed through the second region enter the second pixel, and an entrance pupil of the optical system is located between the diaphragm and an object.
US09509881B2
An image forming apparatus includes a state management unit that shifts an authentication state from a non-login state to a login state, a storage unit that stores setting information, and a data management unit that, in a case where a free space of the storage unit is less than a threshold value, deletes the setting information stored in the storage unit at a timing of shifting from the non-login state to the login state and secure a free space greater than or equal to the threshold value in the storage unit.
US09509875B2
An image process device includes a medium placing part, a sheet feeding part, a first carrying part arranged on a downstream side of the sheet feeding part in a medium carrying direction; a second carrying part arranged on a downstream side of the first carrying part; an imaging unit positioned between the first carrying part and the second carrying part; a driving part equipped with a rotation shaft and provides a driving force via the rotation shaft; a drive transmission member that rotates in correspondence with a rotation of the rotation shaft; a first drive transmission system that connects the drive transmission member with the sheet feeding part and transmits the driving force of the driving part to the sheet feeding part; and a second drive transmission system that is independent from the first drive transmission system, connects the drive transmission member with the first and second carrying parts and transmits the driving force of the driving part to the first and second carrying parts.
US09509869B2
An image reading apparatus a chassis, a sheet supporting unit disposed on the chassis configured to receive a sheet of a document placed thereon, a reading unit movably disposed on the chassis and configured to read an image on the sheet placed on the sheet supporting unit while moving in a predetermined direction, a reference member provided at a side portion of the sheet supporting unit, the sheet being placed on the sheet supporting unit such that one end of the sheet contacts the reference member, and an electrostatic capacitive touch key unit disposed on a side portion of the chassis is provided. Additionally, the reference member and the electrostatic capacitive touch key unit are arranged at opposite side portions, in the predetermined direction, of the chassis.
US09509868B2
An image forming apparatus communicably connected to another image forming apparatus through a network includes a printer unit, a communication unit enabling a connection with another image forming apparatus, and a control unit that executes a first operating system (OS) operating on the first image forming apparatus and a control program operating on the first OS and performing a process relating to image formation, and enables a second OS performing other processes in parallel with the operation of the first OS to be operable. The control unit selects and determines another image forming apparatus in which the second OS is operable based on a process state relating to the image formation of the image forming apparatus operating the second OS, transmits an operating state of the second OS at that time point to the other image forming apparatus, and executes the second OS on the other apparatus.
US09509865B2
Device for receiving a reprographic job comprising a first processing step on a media by a first processing apparatus and a second, subsequent processing step on the media by a second processing apparatus, wherein the media that are to be output by the first processing apparatus are to be subjected to media handling operations between the first processing step and the second processing step comprising unloading from the first processing apparatus, intermediate media handling operations, and loading in the second processing apparatus; the device comprising: a controller arranged for creating or receiving the reprographic job; the controller being further arranged to access a storage storing configuration information on the second processing apparatus, the configuration information relating to loading media in the second processing apparatus; wherein the controller is arranged to specify the first processing step in the first specification in the reprographic job in order to simplify the media handling operations.
US09509860B2
A function execution apparatus is configured to execute a specific function relating to a specific service that is to be provided by a service providing server. A screen information server is configured to supply, to the function execution apparatus, screen information for enabling a user to select setting information corresponding to a setting item relating to the specific service.
US09509856B2
Disclosed is an improved revenue call management system for use with a telecommunication system. The revenue management system preferably includes a remote server, a user database, and a plurality of databases. When a call is placed, the revenue management system queries the user database based on the telephone number dialed to bill the appropriate account. If no account exists for the dialed telephone number, the revenue system queries a multitude of internal and external databases to determine if the dialed telephone number is billable. If the telephone number is un-billable, the collect call attempt is terminated. The revenue management system is capable of establishing accounts in real time while the caller and called party are on the line.
US09509844B2
A telephone subnet crawler is used to access automated telephone response systems and index the information, contents and structure contained therein. A database of the information, contents and structure of a plurality of automated telephone response systems is created by the telephone subnet crawler. A user interface provides callers with direct access to the information, contents and structure of the automated telephone response systems contained in the database. Where an automated telephone response system requires user input, the user interface calls the automated telephone response system and navigates to the node requiring user input, provides the user input and displays the results to the user. Where an automated telephone response system connects to an operator, the user interface calls the automated telephone response system, navigates to the node for an operator, and when an operator is detected, calls the user at a user provided callback number.
US09509839B2
Methods and apparatus to respond to monitor subscriber activity are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first set of client telephone number (TN) data associated with a client and a current time period, and receiving a second set of client TN data associated with a prior time period. The example method also includes receiving a first set of subscriber activity data associated with the current time period, identifying a TN that is in the first set of subscriber activity data and is absent from at least one of the first or second sets of client TN data, and identifying the TN with at least one of a new inroad for a competitor or a new inroad for the client based on at least one activity code from the first set of subscriber activity data.
US09509838B2
A method for generating a ring tone for a given caller based on a prior conversation with that caller. A portion of a conversation with a given caller is recorded and stored in memory as a ring tone. When a subsequent call is received from the same caller, identified by caller ID, the ring tone is played, alerting the user to the incoming call as well as the context of their prior communication. In alternative embodiments of the invention, a prior textual or video conversation is used as the basis for a ring tone, and/or the ‘ring tone’ is delivered by other than audio means. The invention is capable of implementation in telecommunications systems such as cellular, local exchange, and VOIP, and in combination with other forms of internet-based telecommunication.
US09509820B2
Embodiments are disclosed for an in-vehicle computing system for selectively adjusting audio settings for speakers in a vehicle. In some embodiments, an in-vehicle computing system for a vehicle includes a processor, an external device interface communicatively coupleable to a mobile device, and a storage device storing instructions executable by the processor to receive an indication of an incoming call directed toward the mobile device. The instructions are further executable to determine location information for the mobile device, correlate the mobile device with a selected speaker of the vehicle, the selected speaker being associated with the location information for the mobile device, and adjust, via the in-vehicle computing system, at least one audio setting for the selected speaker.
US09509815B2
A protective ergonomic case for a device, such as a smartphone, a tablet, etc. is provided that includes a bottom surface with a valley sized and shaped to receive one or two fingers of a user. The fingers in the valley provide support for the case and the device while the device is operated by the user with his other hand.
US09509809B2
A packet classification capability is presented herein. The packet classification capability enables improvements in packet classification via use of a combination of a primary processing unit and a secondary processing unit where the secondary processing unit is configured to perform packet classification functions in parallel based on distribution of packet classification information across processing blocks of the secondary processing unit. The processing blocks of the secondary processing unit may be supported using a set of processing elements, where each of the processing elements may include a shared memory, respectively. The secondary processing unit may be configured to use a linear search process, a tuple search process, a Bloom search process, or the like. The primary processing unit may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and the secondary processing unit may be a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).
US09509789B2
Methods and systems are presented for managing mood data on a user device. In some embodiments, a user may input mood settings on a user device in order to control mood management. The mood management features may be implemented using a mood management application on the user device. In some embodiments, the mood management system may control the input of mood data from external sources (e.g., haptic feedback from a gaming system) in accordance with the user settings. In some embodiments, the mood management system may control the output of mood data (e.g., a determined mood) to external devices (e.g., immersive environments for affecting a user's mood). In some embodiments, the mood management system may control sharing of and access to mood data stored on a server.
US09509787B2
A method for displaying user status is provided. The method includes: obtaining original information of a user from an information source which is an application, by calling an application programming interface (API) of the information source, wherein the original information comprises an identifier of the user in the information source, contents posted by the user in the original source; parsing the original information of the user, and obtaining user status information of the user; obtaining a virtual image of the user which matches the user status information from a virtual image database according to the user status information; and notifying a virtual image displaying terminal to display the virtual image of the user.
US09509774B2
A method for transmitting data files in a network includes receiving requests from destination devices for packets of the data files. The method includes constructing a conflict graph such that (i) each packet requested by each destination device is represented by a distinct vertex in a plurality of vertices of the conflict graph, (ii) the plurality of vertices are associated with the destination devices, and (iii) links are created between the plurality of vertices based on which of the plurality of vertices represent a same requested packet and which requested packets are stored in caches belonging to destination devices. The method includes assigning the plurality of vertices to groups based on the links. The method includes coloring the plurality of vertices based on the assigning. The method includes combining the packets represented by vertices having a same color. The method includes sending the combined packets.
US09509767B2
A system for preventing redirection loops during collaborative web browsing is provided including: a CPU; a memory in communication with the CPU; instructions stored in the memory and executable by the CPU to prevent redirects encountered during a collaborative web browsing session, the instructions further comprising: instructions enabling a device to join a collaborative web browsing session; instructions enabling detection of a redirection loop based upon a query to a uniform resource locator (URL) history stored in a memory; and instructions enabling termination of the redirect loop; wherein, upon the detection of a redirection loop, the device ignores URL updates of the collaborative web browsing session for a predetermined amount of time.
US09509761B2
In an example embodiment, a definition is loaded into a client application for execution on a user device. Then, one or more classes defined in a central repository database of a server are loaded into the client application. It may then be determined that one or more custom classes not defined in the central repository database are contained in the definition. The one or more custom classes may be validated by ensuring that they contain one or more preset functions. The one or more custom classes may then be loaded into the client application, thereby overriding or extending at least one of the one or more classes defined in the central repository database.
US09509755B2
In one aspect, the present application is directed to a computer-implemented method, a mobile device, a computer network system, and a computer-program product for optimized audio data provision, in an aspect, a computer-implemented method for optimized audio data provision on mobile devices is provided. The method may comprise:evaluating one or more parameters of a network connection of a mobile device; anddepending on said evaluation, automatically switching between downloading audio data in an audio file from a server in real-time and downloading audio data in a text file from the server and performing a text-to-speech application of audio data on the mobile device.
US09509753B2
A mobile apparatus configured to communicate with a touch device is disclosed. The mobile apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a touch device; an interface configured to display a user interface window through which an input attribute for a touch that is input at the touch device is selected; and a controller configured to control the communication interface to transmit to touch device information based on the input attribute selected through the user interface window.
US09509737B2
Technology is disclosed herein for client side data encryption with a recovery mechanism. According to at least one embodiment, a computing device encrypts at least one data set into an encrypted data set using a private encryption key. The computing device encrypts the private encryption key using a password provided by a user of the device. The password is also encrypted using the user's answers to password recovery questions. The encrypted data set, the encrypted key and the encrypted password are transmitted to and stored by a server. The computing device can retrieve and decrypt the encrypted data set form the server. The encryption key can be recovered by decrypting the encrypted key using the password. The password can be recovered by decrypting the encrypted password using answers to the password recovery questions provided by the user.
US09509736B2
A local stream store of a local proxy caches one or more streams of data transmitted over the WAN to a remote proxy, where each stream is stored in a continuous manner and identified by a unique stream identifier (ID). In response to a flow of data received from a client, the local proxy examines the flow of data to determine whether at least a portion of the flow has been previously transmitted to the remote proxy via one of the streams currently stored in the local stream store. If the portion of the flow has been previously transmitted to the remote proxy, the local proxy transmits a first message to the remote proxy without sending actual content of the portion of the flow to indicate that the portion of the flow has been transmitted in one of the streams previously transmitted to the remote proxy.
US09509729B2
A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a query from a call session server for a first pointer associated with a telephone number of a terminating device of a requested communication session, transmitting to the call session server the first pointer including a session initiation protocol uniform resource identifier associated with the terminating device to initiate an internet protocol communication session, receiving a notification from the call session server responsive to the call session server failing to initiate the internet protocol communication session, and transmitting to the call session server a second pointer including a telephone protocol uniform resource identifier for originating a circuit-switched communication session responsive to receiving the notification. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09509726B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a serving device receiving a first message from a gateway device coupled to a communication network, the first message comprising a first session descriptor protocol relating to a port of the network connecting to equipment of a first subscriber of the network to originate a call to a mobile communication device of a second subscriber of the network, whereby the serving device and the gateway device comprise nodes on a signaling path for the call. The serving device sends a second message to the gateway device, the second message comprising a second session descriptor protocol relating to the serving device, for delivery to the network to facilitate a bearer path between the network and the serving device, wherein the gateway device is not a node of the bearer path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09509724B2
A wireless telecommunications device configured to use Session Initiation Protocol in communication with other telecommunications devices comprises a modem subsystem configured to deploy Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem services using Session Initiation Protocol and comprising a Session Initiation Protocol stack; and an application processing engine configured to deploy Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem services using Session Initiation Protocol and comprising a Session Initiation Protocol stack. The device comprises a logical element configured to capture Session Initiation Protocol messages from Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem services to an external Session Initiation Protocol proxy server and to function as a Session Initiation Protocol Back-to-Back User Agent; and send to the external Session Initiation Protocol proxy server Session Initiation Protocol messages based on the captured messages. The need for special Application Programming Interface between the two subsystems is avoided, and multiple SIP request messages need no longer be sent.
US09509723B1
A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server comprises a signaling data system that receives a first SIP message having a Session Description Protocol (SDP) data set. The signaling system responsively stores the SDP data set in association with a session segment identifier and transfers a session request having the session segment identifier and not the SDP data set. The SIP server has a session data system that receives the session request having the session segment identifier and not the SDP data set. The session data system responsively authorizes the session request and transfers a session instruction having the session segment identifier. The signaling data system receives the session instruction having the session segment identifier and responsively identifies the SDP data set with the session segment identifier and transfers a second SIP message having the SDP data set.
US09509711B1
An organization's security data is compared to an aggregation of multiple organizations' security data. Security data is received from multiple organizations having organizational characteristics. The received security data is aggregated based on the organizational characteristics to generate sets of aggregate data associated with the organizational characteristics. A query is received from an organization of the multiple organizations. The query specifies a particular organizational characteristic. A set of aggregate data associated with the specified organizational characteristic is identified. A representation of the organization's security data in relation to the identified set of aggregate data is generated. The representation is transmitted to the organization in response to the query.
US09509708B2
Systems and methods for universal interception of events. The methods involve: intercepting functions performed by an OS object manager which specify Physical Events (“PEs”) occurring therein, each PE comprising a real-time event occurring in an OS in runtime; obtaining PE information indicating which PEs are specified by the intercepted functions being performed by the OS object manager; analyzing the PE information to identify Virtual Events (“VEs”) which are associated with each PE, where each VE comprises an event occurring when one of a plurality of operations is performed by an OS subsystem which facilitates an occurrence of a respective PE; filtering VE information specifying the VEs identified as being associated with the PEs so as to generate filtered information specifying only select ones of the VEs; and placing the filtered information is a queue for subsequent processing to detect malware threats to a computing device.
US09509706B2
A monitoring system for monitoring a service execution infrastructure for providing a service to client computers via a network manages baselines of monitoring values of components per load of the service provided by the infrastructure, and uses the baselines depending on a current service load. When detecting an abnormality of a service monitoring value or component monitoring value by use of the baselines, the monitoring system compares events up to predetermined minutes ago from now with events in the baseline time zone thereby to specify a differential event (or non-normal recent event).
US09509703B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for sharing content among network devices. The system includes at least one base station and network devices that are part of a wireless network. The base station is configured to receive a request for content from a network device. The content may be available on a second network device proximate to the first network device. The base station may generate temporary and permanent keys that allow network devices to access content available on other network devices. The base station, among other functions, may transmit keys, determine proximity settings and facilitate content transfers.
US09509699B2
Systems and methods of virtual world interaction, operation, implementation, instantiation, creation, and other functions related to virtual worlds (note that where the term “virtual world” is used herein, it is to be understood as referring to virtual world systems, virtual environments reflecting real, simulated, fantasy, or other structures, and includes information systems that utilize interaction within a 3D environment). Various embodiments facilitate interoperation between and within virtual worlds, and may provide consistent structures for operating virtual worlds. The disclosed embodiments may further enable individuals to build new virtual worlds within a framework, and allow third party users to better interact with those worlds.
US09509694B2
A method for parallel authentication comprises receiving a download request from a client computer system to download a document stored in a first storage system. The first storage system is coupled to the client computer system via a network. The first storage system is coupled with a second storage system via the network. The download request includes a first token associated with the first storage system and a second token associated with the second storage system. The first storage system is configured to authenticate the download request based on the first token and the second token. Based on successful authentication, the first storage system is configured to authorize the client computer system to download the document.
US09509690B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for managing network traffic using biometrics. A server may store a first value N, a primitive root modulo N, and a plurality of verification codes generated using the primitive root modulo N to the power of a hash function result of a respective portion of a first biometric template acquired from the user during enrollment. The sever may receive a request to connect to the server, from a client operated by the user. The client may use a first offset identifier from the server to identify a first portion of a second biometric template acquired from the user, and generate a first value corresponding to a common exponentiation function. The server may generate a second value corresponding to the common exponentiation function. The server may determine that the user is authenticated if the first value from the client matches the second value.
US09509682B2
In general, the subject matter described in this document can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A computing system receives a token that was specified during a process for logging into an account. The computing system determines whether the token matches any of a plurality of tokens that are assigned to a respective plurality of accounts. The computing system identifies, in response to determining that the token matches a particular token that is assigned to a particular one of the plurality of accounts, a username for the particular one of the plurality of accounts. The computing system provides information to cause a computer display to present the username and multiple other usernames in an obscured manner. The computing system receives an indication that user input selected the username. The computing system receives a password. The computing system provides authorization to log into the account.
US09509670B2
The present invention provides a system and method for managing secure communications in an ad-hoc network having three or more users including a first user, a second user and a third user. Each user is associated with at least one communication device, and has a set of keys associated with the user for managing secure communications between the at least one communication device of the user and the at least one communication device of another one of the three or more users. Each set of keys includes a private key and a public key, where the public key is shared with the communication device of the other ones of the three or more users with which the user has been authenticated, and the private key is used to decrypt communications encrypted using the corresponding public key from the same set of keys. When the second user of the three or more users has been authenticated by the first user, in addition to receiving the associated public key of the second user, the first user receives a value defining a share authority level, which defines the authority of the first user relative to the second user to provide peer key sharing with the third user.
US09509666B2
Techniques involving migrating authenticated content on a network towards the consumer of the content. One representative technique includes a network node receiving an encrypted seed having at least a location of the user data at a network service that stores the user data, and a cryptographic key to access the user data. The seed is received in response to a user login attempt to the network service. The user data is requested from the location using at least the received cryptographic key. The method further includes receiving and storing the user data at the network node, where the network node is physically closer to a location of the user than is the location of the network service. If the user is successfully authenticated, user access is provided to the stored user data at the network node rather than from the network service.
US09509663B2
Securely transferring session credentials from a client-side traffic management device (TMD) to a second server-side TMD that replaces a first server-side TMD. A client-side TMD and the first server-side TMD have copies of secret data associated with an encrypted session between a client device and a server device. The first server-side TMD may be replaced with the second server-side TMD, which may not have the secret data. In response to a request to create an encrypted connection associated with the encrypted session, the client-side TMD encrypts the secret data using the server device's public key and transmits the encrypted secret data to the second server-side TMD. Using the server device's private key, the second server-side TMD decrypts the secret data and participates in the encrypted connection.
US09509659B2
Disclosed are a connectivity platform that allows for proprietary connectivity modules to plug into the operating system and also allows the operating system users and various existing networking applications in the operating system that are authorized by those providers to use that connectivity via existing APIs without the need for the applications to change or for extra configuration of the application to be performed. In an example disclosed herein, the providers provide NAT or firewall traversal and implement the appropriate transport mechanism. This allows for applications and computing devices to communicate in environments where connectivity is prevented by intermediate systems.
US09509653B2
The disclosed technology covers messaging systems and methods, and computer program products embodying such systems and methods. An example computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a message server, a plurality of messages for a plurality of remote mobile devices; and providing a single network connection between the message server and a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices. The first mobile device may have a first user profile and a second user profile, each with its own applications and preferences. The method may include associating the first user profile with a first user identifier, and the second user profile with a second identifier. When a message is received, and directed toward the first user profile, the method may include packaging the first message with the first user identifier, and transmitting the first message, along with the first user identifier, to the first mobile device.
US09509651B2
Systems and methods for presenting electronic messages are provided. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, (A) causing to be concurrently displayed in an E-mail application (i) a first view of a message folder that includes one or more electronic messages and (ii) a user interface control indicating one or more alternate views are available for the message folder, wherein the user interface control persistently indicates the availability of the one or more alternative views and (B) hiding the user interface control, without user intervention, responsive to the occurrence of a predetermined system event.
US09509647B2
A system for displaying images associated with a received electronic message concurrently displays the received electronic message, a view-all-images icon and a respective view icon for each image of a plurality of images attached to the received electronic message as a plurality of distinct attachments. In response to a single user selection of the view-all-images icon, where the user selection of the view-all-images icon is made while the received electronic message and the view-all-images icon are concurrently displayed, the system fetches from a document storage system a single document containing the plurality of images and display the plurality of images contained in the document. In response to user selection of the view icon for a respective image attached to the received electronic message, the system displays the respective image.
US09509646B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for causing a first multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) on a home network to communicate a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message to a second MMSC on a foreign network, the MMS message being modified to conform to multimedia-messaging parameters of a recipient mobile device. A query is issued by the first MMSC to the second MMSC to obtain one or more multimedia-messaging parameters of the recipient mobile device. The parameters include characteristics of the recipient mobile device and subscription details as well as parameters set by the foreign network. The first MMSC modifies the MMS message to conform to the parameters and communicates the modified MMS message to the second MMSC. The second MMSC delivers the MMS message to the recipient or provides a failed-delivery notification to the first MMSC. A reason for the failed delivery might also be indicated.
US09509641B1
A message from a source computer that includes message information indicating a destination target computer system to receive the message, is received. The received message in a storage component, is stored. An entry to a virtual queue for the received message, wherein the entry in the virtual queue points to a memory address of the received message that is stored in the message component, is created. Responsive to determining that the destination target computer system is available, the received message to a physical queue component and assigning an expiration condition to the received message is enqueued. The enqueued message to the destination target computer system is transmitted. Responsive to determining that the expiration condition for the received message is met, the received message from the physical queue is removed.
US09509634B2
Significantly optimized multi-stage networks with scheduling methods for faster scheduling of connections, useful in wide target applications, with VLSI layouts using only horizontal and vertical links to route large scale sub-integrated circuit blocks having inlet and outlet links, and laid out in an integrated circuit device in a two-dimensional grid arrangement of blocks are presented. The optimized multi-stage networks in each block employ several slices of rings of stages of switches with inlet and outlet links of sub-integrated circuit blocks connecting to rings from either left-hand side only, or from right-hand side only, or from both left-hand side and right-hand side; and employ multi-drop links where outlet links of cross links from switches in a stage of a ring in one sub-integrated circuit block are connected to either inlet links of switches in the another stage of a ring in the same or another sub-integrated circuit block.
US09509632B2
Technologies are generally described for systems and methods effective to efficiently schedule a workload in a cloud computing system. In one example, calendar data is collected from respective sets of devices associated with respective sets of subscribers and a workload to be performed at a specific time or range of time is predicted based in part on an analysis of calendar data. Moreover, timing data associated with a set of predicted requests is determined based on the analysis and at least a portion of cloud computing resources that service the set of predicted requests are dynamically scheduled based on timing data.
US09509627B2
Embodiments include a method, system, and computer program product for managing workloads in a network. A switch receives data associated with a workload. The received data is tagged with an identifier that associates the data with the workload. The received data is compressed based on determining that second data stored in a buffer of the switch exceeds a threshold. The switch stores the compressed data in the buffer. The compressed data is transmitted to a second network based on a determination that the switch is over-subscribed.
US09509624B2
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for generating a schedule to transmit data on a network. The method includes accessing information that identifies a quantity of data that a particular client device has designated for transmission. The method includes determining, using the information that identifies the quantity of data for each of multiple client devices, a first schedule that identifies a subset of packet time segments, from a frame that includes packet time segments, during which a first client device is permitted to transmit data to the computing system. The first client device is one of the multiple client devices. The information includes transmitting the first schedule. The schedule includes receiving a transmission of data from the first client device during the identified subset of packet time segments in accordance with the schedule.
US09509620B2
A deadline-aware network protocol is described. In an example, data transfer at a transport layer entity of a packet-based communication network is controlled by receiving a request for network resources for a data flow from a network element and allocating network resources to the data flow. The data flow comprises a number of data packets associated with an application, and the request comprises a factor relating to a time deadline associated with the application. The network resources allocated depend on the factor relating to the time deadline. In examples, the network resource can be a bandwidth or data rate allocated to the data flow, and the factor can be a data rate sufficient to complete the data flow within the time deadline. In examples, the network resources are allocated greedily, such that requests are fully satisfied whenever possible, and the network resources are fully utilized.
US09509614B2
An example method for load balancing in a network environment is provided and includes receiving a packet from a first stage load-balancer in a network environment, where the packet is forwarded from the first stage load-balancer to one of a plurality of second stage load-balancers in the network according to a hash based forwarding scheme, and routing the packet from the second stage load-balancer to one of a plurality of servers in the network according to a per-session routing scheme. The per-session routing scheme includes retrieving a session routing state from a distributed hash table in the network. In a specific embodiment, the hash based forwarding scheme includes equal cost multi path routing. The session routing state can include an association between a next hop for the packet and the packet's 5-tuple representing a session to which the packet belongs.
US09509612B1
According to one embodiment, in response to a request to transfer a data set from a source system to a target system over a network, an adaptive performance control (APC) controller allocates a plurality of data streams for transferring the data set. The APC controller activates one or more data streams from the allocated data streams to transfer the data set from the source system to the target system. The APC controller monitors an overall throughput of the activated data streams assigned to transfer the data set from the source system to the target system. The APC controller dynamically adjusts a number of the activated data streams based on the monitored overall throughput of the activated data streams, such that a maximum overall throughput of the activated data streams is reached while maintaining a minimum number of the activated data streams.
US09509604B1
A method is provided to configure endpoints of a packet routing network, in which one or more endpoints includes Flash storage; multiple endpoints are provided that are configured to impart services to packets; a plurality of information structure portions are provided that associate flow identifiers with next hop destination endpoint addresses to define a plurality of flow identifier-next hop destination endpoint addresses pairs (pairs); different pairs are stored within non-transitory storage devices at different endpoints so that relationships among the next hop destination endpoint addresses of the pairs stored at different endpoints define multiple respective sequences of endpoints that each includes one or more endpoints configured to impart a service and an endpoint that includes Flash storage.
US09509591B2
A dynamically self-configuring and re-configuring dual homing connection (DH) for loop-free data communication between a first communication network and a second communication network, the DH acquiring either a Symmetrical configuration or an Asymmetrical configuration.
US09509583B2
A method for calculating rates based on random sampling includes updating at least one state variable when sampled information is received. The method further includes calculating a rate value based on the state variable and the elapsed time since the state variable was previously updated.
US09509582B2
A method for measuring the resident time of a probe message in at least a network node comprised within a network path, the probe message provided with a Time-To-Live value, the method including steps of: registering the receive timestamp of the probe message; writing the receive timestamp into a dedicated field within the received probe message; checking the Time-To-Live value of the probe message; decrementing the Time-To-Live value by one if the Time-To-Live value is not null, and if the Time-To-Live value is equal to one, then: registering the transmit timestamp of the probe message; computing the probe message resident time within the network node by subtracting the registered receive timestamp to the registered transmit timestamp; writing the computed resident time into a field within the probe message; and changing the value of a flag within the received probe message in order to protect the resident time from being over written by subsequent action on the probe message.
US09509579B1
A method for providing Layer 2 link attributes to a user includes transmitting a query using a Layer 3 network protocol to at least a first network element to determine a link attribute for a Layer 2 link between the first network element and a second network element in a network, receiving a response indicative of the link attribute for the Layer 2 link, determining based on the received response a graphical line attribute corresponding to the link attribute according to a predetermined mapping of link attributes to graphical line attributes, and updating a line element at a graphical user interface according to the graphical line attribute, the line element connecting at the graphical user interface a first graphical element corresponding to the first network element and a second graphical element corresponding to the second network element.
US09509577B2
A method, system, and network providing hardware and software inventorying and monitoring provide the status of a local network of interconnected information technology devices. A user downloads and installs a local network monitoring software program from an online source onto a host computer system. The local network monitoring software system initiates an inventory of all information technology devices associated with said local network of information technology devices. Also, the local network monitoring software determines the operational status of the information technology devices and the status of software programs installed on the information technology devices. The results of the inventory and status determinations are presented to the host computer system. The presented information permits the user of said host computer system to initiate maintenance and support actions for the information technology devices in response to the operational status and status of software programs using the local network monitoring software.
US09509576B2
A method for transferring state information pertaining to a plurality of SIP conversations from a first SIP server to a second SIP server, said first SIP server and said second SIP server being operatively connected to one or more SIP gateways, the method comprising at a controlling node: monitoring said first SIP server until ongoing transactions are terminated; after termination of said ongoing transactions, obtaining dialog state information pertaining to conversations managed by said first SIP server from said first SIP server; and storing said obtained dialog state information at said second SIP server.
US09509574B2
A global manager computer generates management instructions for a particular managed server within an administrative domain according to a set of rules. A global manager computer identifies a traffic midpoint device through which the provider managed server provides a service to a user device. The global manager determines a relevant rule from the set of rules that is applicable to communication between the provider managed server and the user device and generates a backend rule that is applicable to communication between the provider managed server and the traffic midpoint device. The global managed generates a backend function-level instruction including a reference to an actor-set authorized to communicate with the provider managed server to use the service. The global manager sends the backend function-level instruction to the provider managed server to configure the provider managed server to enforce the backend rule on communication with the actor-set including the traffic midpoint device.
US09509573B2
Federation systems and methods for information technology service management are disclosed. An example method includes interfacing with each of the autonomous operational models. The method also includes providing a single point of access for client visibility across each of the autonomous operational models.
US09509572B2
A presence calculation method comprising receiving first presence subscription request for a composite service that comprises a service at the node and a plurality of discrete services at one or more child nodes, sending a second presence subscription request to one or more child nodes in response to the first subscription request, receiving one or more response messages that comprise a collection of presence state transition delays corresponding to the child nodes from the child nodes in response to the second subscription request, determining one or more communication delays between the node and the child nodes using the response messages, computing a presence state transition delay for the composite service using the collection of presence state transition delays and the communication delays; and determining a composite presence state using a mapping between the presence state transition delay for the composite service and the composite presence state.
US09509561B2
A system and method of determining the configuration of a network switching unit includes receiving a configuration message on a network link. The network switching unit is associated with a first switch ID and belongs to a domain associated with a first domain ID. The system and method further includes identifying a second domain ID and a second switch ID based on at least information associated with the configuration message; determining whether the first domain ID and the second domain ID match; if the first domain ID and the second domain ID match, adding the network link to a first link aggregation group (LAG) associated with the second switch ID and designating the first LAG as part of an intra cluster link (ICL); and if the first domain ID and the second domain ID do not match, adding the network link to a second LAG associated with the second domain ID.
US09509552B2
A data center security system and method are provided that leverage server systems on a chip (SOCs) and/or server fabrics. In more detail, server interconnect fabrics may be leveraged and extended to dramatically improve security within a data center.
US09509550B2
Various methods and systems for generating an idempotent workflow are described herein. In one example, a method includes detecting distributed code and identifying a boundary function in the distributed code. The method can also include separating the boundary function into a transition function, a non-idempotent function, and a reversion function. Additionally, the method can include transforming the non-idempotent function into an idempotent function by generating a flag corresponding to the non-idempotent function, wherein the flag indicates if the non-idempotent function has been executed. Furthermore, the method can include combining the transition function, the idempotent function, and the reversion function to form the idempotent workflow.
US09509548B2
A technique to determine trending data based on the aggregation of RSS feeds received from a networking site or system is described. A computer-implemented method monitors a link path from a source for a request feed. The request feed is read and a determination is made as to which one or more of a plurality of web sites the request feed is associated with. The number of request feeds associated with particular ones of the plurality of web sites is aggregated. A determination is made, based on the number of aggregated request feeds what multimedia content is displayed.
US09509544B2
Methods and apparatuses to determine a frequency adjustment in a mobile wireless device are disclosed. A method includes determining a coarse frequency error estimate and multiple fine frequency error estimates; selecting at least one candidate fine frequency error estimate having a frequency value closest to a corresponding frequency value for the coarse frequency error estimate; and determining a frequency adjustment based on a combination of the coarse frequency error estimate and the selected at least one candidate fine frequency error estimate. In an embodiment, the method further includes calculating a confidence metric for the coarse frequency error estimate; when the confidence metric exceeds a threshold value, determining the frequency adjustment based on the candidate fine frequency error estimate; otherwise, determining the frequency adjustment based on a fine frequency error estimate in the plurality of fine frequency error estimates closest to a most recent previous fine frequency error estimate.
US09509535B2
Apparatus are disclosed, such as those involving a transmitter circuit that is configured to generate multi-level signals based on a plurality of data digits. One such transmitter circuit includes a signal output and an encoder configured to provide control signals based at least partially on the plurality of data digits. The transmitter circuit also includes a first set of switches configured to receive one or more of the control signals, and to selectively conduct a first or second voltage reference to the signal output. The transmitter circuit further includes first and second voltage drop circuits that provide third and fourth voltage references, respectively. The third and fourth voltage references have voltage levels between those of the first and second voltage references. The transmitter circuit also includes a second set of switches configured to receive one or more of the control signals, and selectively conduct the third or fourth voltage reference to the signal output.
US09509534B2
Provided is a pulse generation device capable of suitably adjusting and outputting a pulse pattern by a simple configuration. A pulse generation device (100) includes a radio frequency oscillator (110) that generates a carrier wave of a certain frequency, a baseband pulse generating unit (120) that generates a signal having a certain pulse shape at a baseband, a timing generator (130) that controls a timing to generate a pulse through the baseband pulse generating unit (120), and a mixer (140) that modulates the carrier wave output from the radio frequency oscillator (110) using the pulse output from the baseband pulse generating unit (120). The timing generator (130) can adjust a waveform of the pulse output from the baseband pulse generating unit (120).
US09509527B2
A method for virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) encapsulation. The method includes receiving a first augmented MAC frame on a first ingress port of a first network device, where the first augmented MAC frame includes a first egress port ID (EPID), a first ingress port ID (IPID), and a first MAC frame. The method further includes identifying a first destination VXLAN tunnel endpoint (VTEP) internet protocol (IP) address based on the first EPID, where the first destination VTEP IP address is associated with a first destination VTEP. The method further includes identifying a source VTEP IP address based on the first IPID, performing VXLAN encapsulation of the first MAC frame to obtain a VXLAN frame, and sending the VXLAN frame to the first destination VTEP via a first egress port of the first network device.
US09509525B2
Intelligent illumination device are disclosed that use components in an LED light to perform one or more of a wide variety of desirable lighting functions for very low cost. The LEDs that produce light can be periodically turned off momentarily, for example, for a duration that the human eye cannot perceive, in order for the light to receive commands optically. The optically transmitted commands can be sent to the light, for example, using a remove control device. The illumination device can use the LEDs that are currently off to receive the data and then configure the light accordingly, or to measure light. Such light can be ambient light for a photosensor function, or light from other LEDs in the illumination device to adjust the color mix.
US09509520B2
An apparatus and method for detection of repair nodes in a network. In one embodiment of the method, a first node generates a first message and a second message, wherein each of the first and second messages includes a first node identification (ID) that uniquely identifies the first node within a network. The first message includes a first path ID, wherein the first path ID corresponds to a first path through which the first node receives data packets of a stream. The second message includes a second path ID, wherein the second path ID corresponds to a second path through which the first node receives copies of the data packets. The first and second path IDs are distinct from each other. The first node transmits the first message upstream towards a root node for the stream via a first interface of the first node, and the first node transmits the second message upstream towards the root node via a second interface of the first node. The first and second interfaces are distinct from each other.
US09509518B2
In general, the present invention provides an efficient usage of Far End Crosstalk (FEXT) coefficient memory in a G.fast vectoring system. According to certain aspects, embodiments of the invention provide a simple scheme for efficient management of the Discontinuous (DO) and Regular Operation (RO) FEXT coefficient memories to handle the complexity of lines joining/leaving the system in both regular and DO groups. In embodiments, by disabling the power-efficient, Discontinuous Operation, a G.fast system according to the invention first frees up the DO coefficient memory. Next, the system uses this memory as the staging area to manage joining/leaving events. Finally the system re-enables to the power-efficient Discontinuous Operation and re-populates the DO coefficient memory.
US09509515B2
A method and an apparatus for validating device-to-device (D2D) communication devices in a server via a mobile terminal are provided. A 1st device-to-device (D2D) communication device includes a communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal via D2D communication, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the communication unit to transmit digital signature information of the 1st D2D communication device to the mobile terminal, receive, when the digital signature information is successfully authenticated in a server, server public encryption information, from the mobile terminal, and transmit device information of the 1st D2D communication device, which is encrypted using the server public encryption information, to the server, and register the 1st D2D communication device in the server. The method and apparatus reduce user input for registering D2D communication devices in a server, increases user convenience, and decrease authentication time.
US09509512B1
A message digester includes an append bits module that appends padding bits to a message, an append length module that appends length data to the message, the length data representing an amount of data in the message, an initialization module that stores predetermined values in buffers, an array that stores constants, and a looping message-digest calculation module that generates a message digest based on the message, padding bits, length data, the predetermined values in the buffers, and the constants.
US09509509B2
Various embodiments of the present technology involve creating a secure unique identifier for a content item to be used in a synchronized content management system while off-line with the synchronized content management system. In some embodiments, securing the unique identifier involves generating a random key and applying a hash function to an input to generate a hash. The synchronized content management system can require a user to send both the secure identifier and the key to the content management system in order to register the content item with the content management system. Accordingly, a malicious user who only has access to the secure identifier cannot use it to identify the key. This prevents a malicious user who has obtained the secure identifier, but does not have access to the key from registering a malicious document using the original user's secure identifier.
US09509507B1
A method and apparatus comprising a source node. The source node is configured to transmit information using particles with quantum entanglement in a network configured to transmit the information over a reserved path during selected time intervals.
US09509502B2
The present application is directed to symmetric keying and chain of trust. In one embodiment a prover may communicate with a verifier to perform device or data authentication. The verifier may issue a challenge to authenticate the prover, to which the prover may respond with key data and ticket data that may be forwarded to a certifier. If the ticket data is recognized, the certifier may transmit an authorization token to the verifier, which may then set a symmetric attestation key. The prover may utilize the symmetric attestation key to establish a chain of trust for use in responding to challenges to application or data authenticity. The symmetric attestation key may be used to generate a first level key that may be utilized to generate program keys. A challenge response may include at least program key data that may be authenticated by the verifier using the symmetric attestation key.
US09509500B2
An approach is provided for managing the migration of large amounts of encrypted data. A migration platform processes a master key associated with the source database to decrypt an envelope key associated with the data to be migrated. The migration platform also retrieves a master key associated with the target database and encrypts the envelope key based on the master key associated with the target database.
US09509490B1
A system for sharing a reference clock signal between multiple devices is disclosed. The system includes a source device, and a plurality of destination devices. The source device may be configured to generate a reference clock signal and transmit data via a communication link. The reference clock signal may include first and second phases, and the second phase may be an inverse of the first phase. A filter unit configured to filter the reference clock signal may be coupled between the first and second phases of the reference clock signal. Each destination device may be configured to receive the reference clock signal and receive the data dependent upon the reference clock signal.
US09509489B1
In one aspect a computer-implemented method is performed. The method may include capturing intermediate data samples for transmission by a wireless communications transmitter. The method may further include applying signal processing to the intermediate data samples, capturing output data samples after applying the signal processing, and/or determining quadrature correction coefficients from the intermediate data samples and the output data samples, wherein the quadrature correction coefficients remove quadrature errors caused by the signal processing. The method may further include applying the quadrature correction coefficients to a series of input data samples, wherein the intermediate data samples comprise the input data samples with the quadrature correction coefficients applied to the input data samples. The capturing the intermediate data samples, the applying the signal processing, the capturing the output data samples, the determining the quadrature correction coefficients, and the applying the quadrature correction coefficients may be performed by at least one processor.
US09509478B2
System(s) and method(s) are provided for transmitting data code symbols and control code symbols spanning disparate transmission time intervals in the uplink. Data and control symbols that overlap in time-domain within a transmission time interval are multiplexed and transmitted employing resources scheduled for data transmission, whereas data and control code symbols that are not multiplexed are transmitted in respective allocated resources. Multiplexing in conjunction with localized and distributed resource scheduling preserves the single-carrier characteristics of a single-carrier frequency division multiple access system.
US09509469B2
User equipments can achieve quick channel synchronization when establishing a connection to base stations transitioning from a sleep mode to an active mode by using discovery resource signal (DRS) processing results and cell reference signal (CRS) processing results to establish channel synchronization with a CRS antenna port. More specifically, the user equipment may be notified that the CRS antenna port and DRS antenna port are quasi-co-located (QCL), and then use DRS processing results in conjunction with CRS processing results to obtain faster channel synchronization with a CRS antenna port. This may be particularly beneficial when the target BS is transitioned from a sleep mode to an active mode in order to accept a handover of the user equipment.
US09509463B2
Disclosed is a method for implementing link self-adaptation, comprising: sending a downlink sounding channel and a channel quality information CQI feedback resource indication; and receiving CQI information, and selecting a suitable transmission mode for downlink data transmission according to the CQI information. Further disclosed are a network device and a terminal device. By using the method and devices provided in the present invention, the spectrum utilization rate and system performance can be improved.
US09509458B2
A wireless device generates a synchronization signal for maintaining synchronization and transmits the synchronization signal in a subframe containing a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. The first OFDM symbol in the subframe is divided into a first part and a second part, the last OFDM symbol in the subframe is divided into a first part and a second part, and the synchronization signal is transmitted in the second part of the first OFDM symbol and the first part of the last OFDM symbol.
US09509457B2
A method of communicating data in a wireless telecommunications system between plural base stations and plural terminal devices using plural Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, sub-carriers spanning a first frequency bandwidth. The method includes: communicating data between a first base station and a first terminal device using a first OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across the first frequency bandwidth, communicating data between a second base station, geographically separated from the first base station, and a second terminal device using a second OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across a second frequency bandwidth, the second frequency bandwidth being smaller than and within the first frequency bandwidth; and communicating control-plane data between the first base station and the first terminal device using a combination of the first and second groups of the OFDM sub-carriers. Guard regions may be provided in the frequency domain between frequencies of transmissions associated with the first and second base stations.
US09509455B2
Data characterizing a first signal transmitted in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system by a transmitter with one or more transmit antennas through an in-band channel and received by a receiver with a plurality of receive antennas can be received. The first signal can include one or more in-band pilot pulses. A channel quality for an out-of-band channel can be predicted based on the received data and a cross-correlation between an in-band channel and one or more out-of-band channels. Data characterizing the predicted channel quality for the out-of-band channel can be provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US09509441B2
A mobile station apparatus transmits in a subframe, to a base station apparatus, Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) control information and channel state information on the indicated one physical uplink control channel resource, the HARQ control information and the channel state information being transmitted using one of a first processing method of coding and a second processing method of coding, the one of the first processing method of coding and the second processing method of coding being applied on the basis of whether a sum of a number of bits of the HARQ control information and a number of bits of the channel state information exceeds a second predetermined value.
US09509428B2
Systems and methods for routing wavelengths in an optical network include responsive to a path request for a wavelength or group of wavelengths, determining a path through the optical network; determining a location on the path where wavelength blocking should occur to form a loop-free path in the optical network; and setting the wavelength blocking at the location. The optical network can utilize a broadcast and select architecture and the wavelength blocking is configured to prevent the wavelength or group of wavelengths from looping back on a port where the wavelength or group of wavelengths has already been received on. The optical network can utilize an all-broadcast architecture and the wavelength blocking is configured to prevent multiple paths for the wavelength or group of wavelengths by constraining the wavelength or group of wavelengths to a single path through the optical network.
US09509424B2
A communication terminal includes a receiver for receiving a communication signal including urgent warning information, a current location information retrieving unit that retrieves location information regarding a current location of a user, a storage unit that stores information regarding a registered point specified by the user or a communication system, a processing unit that calculates a distance between the current location and the registered point, in response to receiving by the receiving unit of the communication signal, and an information providing unit that provides to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user.
US09509420B2
An electronic device includes a radio frequency power amplifier, a storage device, at least one processor, and one or more modules that are stored in the storage device and executed by the at least one processor. The one or more modules includes a power obtaining module, a comparing module, and an indicating module. The power obtaining module obtains an output power of the radio frequency power amplifier. The comparing module compares the output power of the radio frequency power amplifier obtained by the power obtaining module with at least one pre-determined value, and the comparing module outputs a comparing result according the comparison of the output power and the at least one pre-determined value. The indicating module generates an alerting signal according to the comparing result output from the comparing module, for indicating electromagnetic radiation of the electronic device.
US09509413B2
The common mode rejection ratio (CMRR) decreases due to the difference in receiving intensity of the optical signal or in photoelectric conversion efficiency of the photodiode in the related coherent optical receiver, therefore, an optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a first photodiode receiving a first optical signal and outputting a positive signal; a second photodiode receiving a second optical signal and outputting a complementary signal; a differential transimpedance amplifier receiving the positive signal and outputting an amplified positive signal voltage, and receiving the complementary signal and outputting an amplified complementary signal voltage; and a gain adjustment means for adjusting a first gain of a gain of the differential transimpedance amplifier for the positive signal and a second gain of a gain of the differential transimpedance amplifier for the complementary signal.
US09509410B2
A high-speed 100G optical transceiver, such as for InfiniBand and Ethernet, with associated mapping to frame various different protocols. The optical transceiver utilizes an architecture which relies on standards-compliant (i.e., multi-sourced) physical client interfaces. These client interfaces are back-ended with flexible, programmable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules to accomplish either InfiniBand or Ethernet protocol control, processing, re-framing, and the like. Next, signals are encoded with Forward Error Correction (FEC) and can include additional Optical Transport Unit (OTU) compliant framing structures. The resulting data is processed appropriately for the subsequent optical re-transmission, such as, for example, with differential encoding, Gray encoding, I/Q Quadrature encoding, and the like. The data is sent to an optical transmitter block and modulated onto an optical carrier. Also, the same process proceeds in reverse on the receive side.
US09509409B2
Disclosed is an optical transceiver which includes an optical transmitter converting a first electrical signal into a first optical signal, an optical receiver converting a second optical signal into a second electrical signal, and a processing unit operatively coupled to the optical transmitter and the optical receiver. The processing unit is configured to obtain first wavelength information of the first optical signal and second wavelength information of the second optical signal and compare the first wavelength information and the second wavelength information to control a wavelength separation interval between the first optical signal and the second optical signal.
US09509398B2
A relay method includes transmitting, by a first apparatus in a ring network, a first control frame in which information of the first apparatus is stored, through a first port different from a second port where a communication failure is detected; receiving, by a second apparatus in the ring network, the first control frame through a third port, when the communication failure does not occur at a side of a fourth port different from the third port: storing information of the second apparatus in the first control frame; and transmitting the first control frame through the fourth port; and when the communication failure occurs at the side of the fourth port, determining whether a data frame flowing into the ring network is affected by the communication failure for every VLAN (virtual local area network) based on the first control frame; and switching a communication path set in an affected VLAN.
US09509394B1
A system and method are provided for implementing a security construct for downloading, delivering and protecting large amounts of data for transfer to an aircraft upload capability in a short period of time, including between individual legs of a flight for a particular aircraft or fleet of aircraft. Large data packages include In Flight Entertainment and Electronic Flight Bag data. The data is downloaded at an available rate using wired communication paths communicating with various data sources via communication networks to a mobile communication device. The data is secured in the mobile communication device according to particular encryption schemes acceptable to data content providers. The mobile communication device securely holds the data for carriage to the aircraft where wired communication is established to upload the data in available abbreviated amounts of time in a manner that is not dependent on the availability of wireless communicating bandwidth.
US09509391B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for transmitting sounding feedback in Very High Throughput (VHT) wireless systems. The sounding feedback may be transmitted from a user station (STA), wherein the feedback may comprise a certain number of beamforming matrices and a certain number of singular values of a wireless channel associated with the STA. Further, the sounding feedback may comprise a bit for indicating whether this feedback represents a Single-User (SU) feedback or a Multi-User (MU) feedback.
US09509390B2
A method for receiving channel state information (CSI) feedback by a base station supporting multiple transmit antennas from a mobile station; the base station therefore; a method for transmitting CSI feedback by a mobile station to a base station supporting multiple transmit antennas; and the mobile station therefore are discussed. The method for receiving CSI feedback by a base station includes according to one embodiment configuring, by the base station via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, one or more channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configurations and one or more null resource element (RE) configurations; transmitting CSI-RSs; and receiving the CSI feedback measured based on the CSI-RSs and the one or more null RE configurations. The one or more CSI-RS configurations are used for a channel quality measurement of the CSI feedback. The one or more null RE configurations are used for an interference measurement of the CSI feedback.
US09509389B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting channel state information (CSI) of a user equipment, which is allocated a plurality of serving cells, in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: receiving setting information for setting groups comprising at least one serving cell from the plurality of serving cells, and transmitting periodic CSI with respect to a group that is selected according to priority between the groups, when the periodic CSI with respect to each of the groups is set to be transmitted from the same subframe, wherein the periodic CSI with respect to each of at least two serving cells are transmitted together when the at least two serving cells are included in the group that is selected.
US09509388B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for channel information feedback in a wireless communication system. A terminal may receive CSI-RS configuration information from a base station and generate channel information using a codebook determined in accordance with the number of CSI-RS patterns set by the CSI-RS configuration information. The base station may transmit CSI-RS patterns allocated to a plurality of nodes through a method for expanding a field within one control message.
US09509378B2
A method and apparatus for optimizing the system capacity of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system that uses with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas. In a receiver, a target quality of service (QoS) metric and reference data rate are set. The target QoS metric may be set to a predetermined value and/or may be adjusted dynamically with respect to packet error rate (PER) by a slow outer-loop control processor. The QoS of received signals are compared to the target QoS. Depending on the comparison, the receiver generates a channel quality indicator (CQI) which is sent to the transmitter. The CQI is a one or two bit indicator which indicates to the transmitter to disable, adjust or maintain data transmission rates of particular sub-carriers, groups of sub-carriers per transmit antenna, or groups of sub-carriers across all transmit antennas. At the transmitter, the transmitted data rate is disabled, adjusted or maintained.
US09509375B2
A wireless power transmission/reception system includes a wireless power transmission circuit and a wireless power reception circuit. The wireless power transmission circuit includes an oscillator, a DC-AC converter that converts a direct current to an alternating current and is turned on/off in response to a control signal, a power transmission coil that transmits AC power, a signal reception coil, and a signal receiver that transfers the control signal to the DC-AC converter. The wireless power reception circuit includes a power reception coil, a rectifier that converts an alternating current to a direct current and is turned on or off in response to the control signal, an control signal generator that generates the control signal, a signal transmission coil, and a signal transmitter that transmits the control signal through the signal transmission coil.
US09509361B1
A method for using an accessory with a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes: causing at least one camera of the mobile device to capture one or more images of a pattern disposed on a surface of an accessory that is being used with the mobile device; identifying a code associated with the accessory from the one or more images of the pattern; determining a type associated with the accessory based on the identified code; and entering an accessory-specific operating mode in which behavior of the mobile device is controlled to accommodate features that are specific to the accessory.
US09509352B2
A noise cancellation method comprises receiving, by an adaptive phase-noise cancellation apparatus, a noise-corrupted symbol from a receiver, performing a hard decision process on the noise-corrupted symbol to generate a substantially clean symbol based upon the noise-corrupted symbol, calculating a phase deviation of the noise-corrupted symbol based upon the substantially clean symbol and the noise-corrupted symbol, generating a phase error based upon the phase deviation and transmitting, at an output of the adaptive phase-noise cancellation apparatus, a phase corrected symbol determined in accordance with a subtraction of the generated phase error from the received noise-corrupted symbol.
US09509346B2
A circuit comprises a transmitter to provide a transmit signal. The circuit also comprises a coupler element to receive the transmit signal at an input port, to provide a first representation of the transmit signal at an antenna port and a second representation of the transmit signal at a testing port. The circuit further comprises a monitoring receiver unit. The monitoring receiver unit is coupled to the testing port. Furthermore, the monitoring receiver unit is configured to determine a characteristic of the second representation of the transmit signal.
US09509343B2
Apparatuses may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry coupled to multiple antennas. Signal strength measurements may be gathered using the antennas and corresponding signal strength difference measurements may be produced to reflect which of the antennas is exhibiting superior performing. Information may be gathered relating to the fading environment of the communications circuitry, such as whether the wireless communications circuitry is transitioning between a fast fading environment and a slow fading environment. For example, the wireless communications circuitry may further include a satellite positioning system receiver or an accelerometer, which may be used in gathering the information. The difference measurements may be filtered and compared to antenna switching criteria such as antenna switching thresholds. An antenna switching threshold may be adjusted in real time based at least in part on the gathered information.
US09509339B2
A system and method is provided for the high-speed transfer of data within a vehicle. The method includes the steps of: receiving at a high-speed transmitter non-video parallel data from a plurality of data sources in the vehicle; sampling the parallel data received from the plurality of data sources; serializing at the high-speed transmitter the parallel data from the plurality of data sources; and then transmitting via a low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) the parallel data to a high-speed receiver in the vehicle for deserialization while performing a sample and hold function as new parallel data is received at the high-speed transmitter during transmission, wherein the high-speed transmitter is configured to provide video data.
US09509326B1
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) having a DAC cell with p-type and n-type current sources and an adjustable strength current source which is operable to correct non-linearity of the DAC cell caused by both the p-type and n-type current sources; and measurement logic, coupled to the DAC, having a reference DAC cell with p-type and n-type current sources, wherein the measurement logic is to monitor an integrated error contributed by both the p-type and n-type current sources of the DAC cell, and wherein the measurement logic is to adjust the strength of the adjustable strength current source according to the integrated error and currents of the p-type and n-type current sources of the reference DAC cell.
US09509325B1
The present disclosure describes a channel selector for use in an analog-to-digital converter that has a sampling circuit for converting an analog input to a digital output within a fault tolerance range. The channel selector includes a reception channel, a diagnostic channel, and an impedance compensator. The reception channel receives an analog signal for delivery to the sampling circuit when it is selected for coupling with the sampling circuit. The diagnostic channel receives a diagnostic signal for verifying the digital output of the sampling circuit when it is selected for coupling with the sampling circuit. The impedance compensator is configured to offset a high channel impedance of the reception channel based on the fault tolerance range of the sampling circuit and when the diagnostic channel is selected.
US09509306B2
According to an aspect of the invention an integrated circuit is conceived which comprises a physical unclonable function which is at least partially implemented in a passivation layer of said integrated circuit. According to a further aspect of the invention, a corresponding method for manufacturing an integrated circuit is conceived. According to a further aspect of the invention, an electronic device is conceived which comprises an integrated circuit of the kind set forth.
US09509303B2
A pressure-sensitive switch includes a first substrate, a conductive structure provided on the first substrate, and an electrode unit disposed to face the first substrate with the conductive structure located therebetween. The conductive structure includes an electrode layer on the first substrate, and an elastic component having conductivity and extending to protrude from the electrode layer toward the electrode unit.
US09509287B2
Internal voltage generation circuits are provided. The internal voltage generation circuit includes a code signal generator and an internal voltage generator. The code signal generator generates input code signals having a logic level combination corresponding to a difference between a frequency of an external clock signal and a frequency of an internal clock signal. The internal voltage generator is selectively activated according to the logic level combination of the input code signals to drive an internal voltage signal.
US09509278B2
An apparatus includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device. The MEMS device includes a resonator suspended from a substrate, an anchor disposed at a center of the resonator, a plurality of suspended beams radiating between the anchor and the resonator, a plurality of first electrodes disposed about the anchor, and a plurality of second electrodes disposed about the anchor. The plurality of first electrodes and the resonator form a first electrostatic transducer. The plurality of second electrodes and the resonator form a second electrostatic transducer. The first electrostatic transducer and the second electrostatic transducer are configured to sustain rotational vibrations of the resonator at a predetermined frequency about an axis through the center of the resonator and orthogonal to a plane of the substrate in response to a signal on the first electrode.
US09509277B2
A piezoelectric vibrator has a piezoelectric vibrating reed mounted on an upper layer base substrate through a conductive adhesive, in which the piezoelectric vibrating reed includes a first vibrating arm and a second vibrating arm extending along a first direction and arranged side by side in a second direction, a base supporting the first vibrating arm and the second vibrating arm and a first support arm and a second support arm positioned in the outer side of the first vibrating arm and the second vibrating arm in the second direction and bonded to the upper layer base substrate, in which an extrusion amount of the conductive adhesive in the inner side of the first support arm and the second support arm is smaller than an extrusion amount of the conductive adhesive in the outer side of the first support arm and the second support arm.
US09509276B2
An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a functional element formed on the substrate and including an excitation electrode that excites an acoustic wave; a columnar electrode formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the excitation electrode; a metal frame body formed on the substrate and surrounding the functional element and the columnar electrode; and a ceramic substrate sealing the functional element in combination with the metal frame body, a first metal layer bonded to the columnar electrode and a second metal layer bonded to the metal frame body being formed on a surface of the ceramic substrate.
US09509270B2
In order to provide a noise cancellation resonator that is highly effective in reducing noise, a noise cancellation resonator of the present invention is characterized by including: a noise cancellation resonator coil with an inductance component of Ln; and a noise cancellation resonator capacitor with a capacitance component of Cn, wherein the noise cancellation resonator has a resonance frequency that is calculated by adding a shift frequency that is determined based on a degree of coupling between a main resonator coil and the noise cancellation resonator coil, to a predetermined frequency of an electromagnetic field generated by a main resonator that is a source of noise and includes the main resonator coil.
US09509269B1
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a method of adjusting an output of a media player comprising capturing an ambient audio signal; processing the ambient audio signal to determine whether one or more characteristic forms are present within the ambient audio signal; and reducing an output of a media player from a first volume to a second volume if the one or more characteristic forms are present within the ambient audio signal. The characteristic forms may be, for example, a name or personal identifier of a user of the media player, the voice of a user of the media player, or an alarm or siren.
US09509268B2
A signal amplifying system comprising: an amplifying module with a plurality of PGAs coupled in series; a test signal generating circuit, for generating a test signal fed to one test input PGA; and a control circuit. If the test input PGA is not a final PGA, the final PGA outputs an output test signal amplified by the test input PGA and the PGA following the test input PGA, wherein each of the PGA following the test input PGA has a known amplifying gain. The control circuit acquires an accumulated gain for the test input PGA and the PGA following the test input PGA based on the output test signal, and acquires an amplifying gain of the test input PGA based on the accumulated gain.
US09509262B2
A concurrent multi-band RF amplifying circuit may include: an input impedance matching unit performing impedance matching on each of first and second band signals included in an input signal input through one input terminal; an input amplifying unit including first and second band amplifying units each amplifying the first and second band signals input through the input impedance matching unit; a common ground circuit unit connected between a first common node commonly connected to the first and second band amplifying unit and a ground and including an impedance device for matching of an input impedance; and an output amplifying unit amplifying signals from each of the first and second band amplifying units.
US09509260B2
A transimpedance amplifier includes a first inverter having a first input node and a first output node. The first input node is configured to receive an input signal. A second inverter has a second input node and a second output node. The second input node connects to a reference voltage terminal. The first inverter and the second inverter are configured to provide a differential output voltage signal between the first output node and the second output node. A first amplifier is configured to provide feedback to the first input node and a second amplifier is configured to provide feedback to the second input node.
US09509246B2
A control system for an electric motor, the control system comprising a first control device arranged to control current in a first coil set of the electric motor and a second control device arranged to control current in a second coil set of the electric motor; wherein the first control device includes a first interface arrangement for receiving data from a first controller for allowing the first control device to determine a required current flow in the first coil set, wherein the first interface arrangement is arranged to communicate data to the second control device for allowing the second control device to determine a required current flow in the second coil set.
US09509234B2
A drive controller and a method for operating a drive controller having a converter with a DC link circuit, includes measuring during operation phase currents generated by the converter; forming from the measured phase currents a current vector in a first coordinate system; rotating, with a first transformation angle and with a first rate of change, the current vector into a second coordinate system to generate a resulting current vector; supplying the resulting current vector to a regulator to generate a resulting voltage vector at an output of the regulator; rotating, with the first transformation angle or with a second transformation angle rotating at the first rate of change, the resulting voltage vector back into the first coordinate system to generate a resulting back-transformed voltage vector; and using the resulting back-transformed voltage vector as an influencing variable in addition to U/f control or vector regulation for controlling the converter.
US09509231B2
A power converter system includes a converter configured to be coupled to a power generation unit for receiving current from the power generation unit. A bus is coupled to the converter, and energy is stored within the bus when the current is conducted through the power converter system. A damping circuit is configured to be coupled to the bus and to the power generation unit, and a control system is coupled to the converter and to the damping circuit. The control system is configured to selectively discharge at least a portion of the energy stored within the bus through the damping circuit when the control system determines that a predetermined condition is met.
US09509227B2
In a general aspect, a bridge circuit can include a first bridge including a first plurality of MOSFETs and including a first input terminal and a second input terminal, and a second bridge including a second plurality of MOSFETs and including a third input terminal and a fourth input terminal. The first bridge and the second bridge can be coupled in parallel and being coupled to a first load terminal and a second load terminal.
US09509223B2
A LLC bidirectional resonant converter comprising: a resonant tank, a first switching circuit connected to the resonant tank via first power conduits, a second switching circuit connected to the resonant tank via second power conduits, a switching element, and at least one switchable inductive element which is arranged by the switching element to be in parallel across the second power conduits when operating in a first mode of operation and arranged by the switching element to be in parallel across the first power conduits when operating in a second mode of operation.
US09509218B2
A DC to DC converter assembly, for connecting first and second high voltage DC power transmission networks, comprising first and second modular multilevel converters, each converter including a first converter limb having first and second limb portions, each limb portion including a least one module switchable to selectively provide a voltage source and thereby vary the magnitude ratio of a DC voltage (V1, V2) across the first and second terminals of a respective converter and an AC voltage (VAC) at the third terminal of the corresponding converter, the DC to DC converter assembly further including a first link electrically connecting the third terminal of one converter, with the third terminal of the other converter, and at least one converter further including a controller configured to switch the first and second limb portions in the first converter limb of the said converter into simultaneous conduction to divert a portion (IDiV1) of current flowing within the said converter away from the first link.
US09509207B2
An apparatus and method for compensating for a ripple and offset of an inverter and an apparatus and method for compensating for a ripple and offset of an inverter which removes a ripple component by compensating for an offset component included in a signal input to the inverter from an inverter controller. A method that senses a direct current (DC) input to an inverter from an inverter controller and an alternating current (AC) output from the inverter and removes a ripple component included in the DC based on the sensed currents, a method that removes a ripple component included in a reference voltage that is output from an inverter controller and is input to an inverter, and a method that compensates for an offset component of an AC voltage/AC used for inverter control and reduces a ripple component corresponding to an output frequency of an inverter.
US09509201B2
An easy-to-start motor includes a base, a stator and a rotor. The base has a plastic member and a metallic induction member wrapped with the plastic member. The metallic induction member includes at least one magnetic attraction portion. Each magnetic attraction portion is in the form of a protrusion. The stator is coupled with the base. The rotor has a shaft and a permanent magnet. The shaft is capable of being coupled with the base. The at least one magnetic attraction portion is magnetically attracted by the permanent magnet, to prevent the rotor from stopping at a dead location where it is difficult to start the motor. A base of the easy-to-start motor is adapted to be coupled with a rotor, including a plastic member and a metallic induction member wrapped with the plastic member.
US09509200B2
An HF generator has first and second solid-state switches. Each of the solid-state switches has first and second output connectors and is designed to switch a high-frequency electrical current between the first and second output connectors. Furthermore, the HF generator has a coaxial cable with first and second conductors. The first conductor successively has a first section and a second section in the longitudinal direction of the coaxial cable which are separated from one another by a first break point. The first output connector of the first solid-state switch is conductively connected to the second conductor, and the second output connector of the first solid-state switch is conductively connected to the first section. In addition, the first output connector of the second solid-state switch is conductively connected to the first section, and the second output connector of the second solid-state switch is conductively connected to the second section.
US09509195B1
An example embedded encoder for an outrunner brushless motor is provided. An example motor includes a motor shaft, a stationary stator, a rotor coupled to the motor shaft and provided external to the stationary stator for rotating around the stationary stator to cause rotation of the motor shaft, and a faceplate coupled to the stationary stator that includes a cavity. The motor also includes an encoder embedded into the cavity of the faceplate that comprises a code wheel coupled to the motor shaft and a read head for providing an output indicative of an angular position of the code wheel. The faceplate provides alignment between the code wheel and the read head.
US09509194B2
An electric machine, such as a generator, providing for the generation of electricity and includes a rotor generating a magnetic field and a stator having stator windings. The interaction of the magnetic field with the stator windings generates current in the windings. The generator may provide the generated current to a power output of the generator, where it may be further transmitted to an electrical load to power the load.
US09509177B2
A mobile device is disclosed that is not only capable of wirelessly receiving power from a source device, but also of wirelessly transmitting power to a destination device. The device includes one or more power modules and corresponding coils for transmitting/receiving signals from which power can be loaded/extracted. In addition, the device can receiving initiation information identifying power transfer standards supported by each of the source and destination devices, and can control its one or more power modules to operate in accordance with the standards identified in the initiation information.
US09509171B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method for reducing standby power consumption of a battery of a wireless charging device comprises: monitoring a presence of the wireless charging device nearby a wireless charger transmitter (460); initiating a wireless charging when the presence of the wireless charging device is detected on the wireless charger transmitter (460) and sending a charging notification to an end user; sending a battery full message for notifying the end user when the wireless charging is complete and terminating the wireless charging; setting the wireless charging device to a standby mode and monitoring a ping signal from the wireless charger transmitter (460); entering a maintenance charging mode when the battery is below a recharging threshold without notifying the end user; and continuing the maintenance charging mode of the wireless charging device until the battery is full or the wireless charging device is removed from the wireless charger transmitter (460).
US09509163B2
A power control circuit assembly for an electric door latch mechanism comprises a load control circuit module configured to distribute a DC operating voltage to power an electromechanical door latch mechanism and its associated access control device. An energy storage device such as a rechargeable battery is coupled to the load control circuit module and is configured to deliver a DC voltage to the load control circuit module wherein the DC energy storage device voltage supplies the DC operating voltage. A rectifier is configured to receive an input AC voltage and convert the input AC voltage to an input DC voltage. The input DC voltage is adapted to deliver an energy storage device recharge voltage. An energy storage device voltage detection module is configured to interrogate a DC voltage supplied by the energy storage device.
US09509158B2
A power supply configuration system/method providing a digitally controlled uninterruptable power supply (UPS) to protected load devices (PLD) configured as power supply units (PSU) serviced by one or more power supply sources (PSS) is disclosed. The system generally includes a number of power supply sources (PSS) that are monitored by power condition sensing (PCS) circuitry that determines individual power source states within the PSS. This physical state information is used by a digitally controlled switching network (DSN) that reconfigures the electrical connections between the PSS and the individual PLD elements to properly route power from the PSS to the PLD in the event of individual PSS failures. The DSN receives phase/voltage state information from the PSS to ensure that current between the PSS and PLD is transferred in a synchronized manner and that PSS resources are properly protected during the switching transition.
US09509153B2
Compact and portable station for charging multiple mobile devices is described, embodiments of the station include: an interlocking charging base, connectable to up to six bases with one 120VAC to 12VDC inverter cord; a self-contained main housing to include a cord housing with eight 2-foot spooled retractable cords, ports to recharge eight mobile devices simultaneously, a rechargeable 12-volt lithium ion battery to transfer 5VDC from the rechargeable battery to each mobile device. The unit is intended for use in public places for customer convenience and offering businesses advertising space.
US09509152B2
A method and apparatus for a self-heating battery pack uses a battery cells of a first battery cell circuit to power a device. However these battery cells become substantially inoperative below a very cold temperature, so a second battery cell circuit, having a second type of battery cells which can operate at the cold temperature, is used to power a heating element to warm up the first battery cells to a temperature at which they can operate.
US09509151B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling a wireless power receiver for wirelessly receiving power. A drive power for driving the wireless power receiver is received from a wireless power transmitter. A communication network is established with the wireless power transmitter. A wireless power network that is controlled by the wireless power transmitter is joined. A charge power is received from the wireless power transmitter.
US09509143B1
A wide dynamic range charger module is configured to couple a variable power source such as a photovoltaic cell to a load. The module determines a maximum power point (MPPT) of the power source and based at least in part upon that MPPT selects one of a plurality of power converters to provide power to the load. The selection is such that the selected power converter is operating within its operating regime. The selected power converter may further be configured to a pre-determined input admittance which corresponds to the power source.
US09509137B2
An electrostatic discharge protection device including a PNP transistor, a protection circuit and an adjustment circuit is provided. An emitter of the PNP transistor is electrically connected to a pad, and a collector of the PNP transistor is electrically connected to a ground. The protection circuit is electrically connected between a base of the PNP transistor and the ground, and provides a discharge path. When an electrostatic signal occurs on the pad, the electrostatic signal is conducted to the ground through the discharge path and the PNP transistor. The adjustment circuit is electrically connected between the emitter and the base of the PNP transistor. When a power voltage is supplied to the pad, the adjustment circuit provides a control voltage to the base of the PNP transistor according to the power voltage, so as to prevent the emitter and the base of the PNP transistor from being forward biased.
US09509134B2
A disconnect unit and an associated method in a photovoltaic system includes a plurality of input power lines configured to receive power from a photovoltaic (PV) generator, and deliver the received power to an inverter. The disconnect unit further includes a sensor configured to determine a voltage at the plurality of input power lines, and a controller configured to selectively disconnect and reconnect one or more of the plurality of input power lines based on the determined voltage.
US09509132B2
A switching device includes an energy store and a measuring device connected to a control apparatus. The energy store is connected in series between the supply connection and the power supply. The control apparatus can monitor the energy supply of the switching device in the area between the supply connection and the power supply taking place via the supply connection via the measuring device. If the energy supply monitored by the measuring device falls into a critical range, and using the energy from the energy store: the control apparatus connects the semiconductor switch in an electrically conductive manner and then opens the second switch; and subsequently switches the semiconductor switch to an electrically non-conductive state and then opens the first switch.
US09509126B1
The present disclosure includes a power distribution box comprising a screw defining a longitudinal axis. The screw includes a screw head and a screw shank adjacent to the screw head, the screw shank includes a longitudinal end opposite the screw head. The power distribution box further includes a sleeve comprising an axially extending sleeve hole through which the screw shank extends, a circuit board, and a busbar comprising a busbar hole through which the shank of the screw extends. At least one of the sleeve and the screw is electrically coupled to the busbar, and the busbar is electrically coupled to the circuit board. The screw may be rotatably fixed relative to the circuit board, and the sleeve may be configured to receive a portion of a torque applied to the longitudinal end of the screw shank.
US09509120B2
An optoelectronic component includes a generating device for generating electromagnetic radiation and an outcoupling device for coupling out electromagnetic radiation from the generating device. A reducing device for reducing a radiation density of the outcoupled electromagnetic radiation is arranged on a radiation output side of the outcoupling device.
US09509109B2
A combination connector includes a number of walls defining a housing and a female RJ connector and a female flash card connector inside the housing. Contact pins extend from contacts of the female RJ connector and contacts of the female flash card connector through at least one wall of the housing for connection to a PCB. The walls include electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding.
US09509106B2
A coaxial connector plug includes a first outer conductor with a cylinder shape extending in a first direction, a first center conductor that has a cylinder shape extending in the first direction and is provided inside the first outer conductor, and an insulation member that fixes the first center conductor to the first outer conductor. In the coaxial connector plug, a communication section to cause the inside and the outside of the first center conductor to communicate with each other is provided in an end portion of the first center conductor on one side in the first direction. A width of the communication section in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction becomes larger as it progresses from the one side toward the other side of the first direction, and the insulation member penetrates from the outside to the inside of the first center conductor through the communication section.
US09509103B2
An apparatus comprising: a connector for providing an electrical interface, the connector comprising an opening configured to receive a suitable member; at least one conductive contact located at least partially within the connector and configured to operate as a switch such that when the connector is in an unplugged to partially plugged state the at least one conductive contact is grounded and when the connector is in a partially plugged to a fully plugged state the at least one conductive contact is coupled to an electrical terminal channel interfacing an electrical signal between the connector and the member.
US09509094B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative connector housing. The connector housing includes a longitudinal bottom wall having a plurality of contact openings, first and second side walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall at opposing sides of the bottom wall, first and second end walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall at opposing ends of the bottom wall, and first and second pairs of latch openings at opposing ends of the bottom wall. Each latch opening extends through the bottom wall and through a side wall and is configured to allow a latch to eject a mating connector by moving within the opening.
US09509083B2
A waterproof socket includes an inner core fixing base disposed between a retention frame and a socket base. Lower insertion holes are coaxial with an output terminal and are formed in the inner core fixing base. An accommodating groove is formed between two lower insertion holes. A waterproof inner core is disposed in the accommodating groove. The waterproof inner core includes a main body movably inserted in the accommodating groove. Two upper seal doors are sealed at upper insertion holes of the retention frame and are disposed on two upper sides of the main body, and two swing rods are symmetrically disposed below the upper seal doors. One end of each of the swing rod is hinged to the main body, and the other end of the swing rod is provided with a lower seal door for sealing the lower insertion holes of the inner core fixing base.
US09509080B1
An indoor electrical wall outlet cover permitting functional use of an electrical wall outlet while fully concealing the plug contact openings of the outlet. The cover has a functional electrical plug that inserts into the wall outlet and is connected to an extended electrical cord having at its distal end one or more functional electrical receptacles for indirect use of the wall outlet. In one embodiment, the cover is essentially featureless in outward appearance, and when positioned over the wall outlet, the cover fully hides the wall outlet from view, including the perimeter dimension of the wall outlet. The functional electrical plug has electrical connection pins that are bent at a angle enabling the cover to function without extending any significant degree outward of the wall outlet, so that furniture may be positioned effectively flush against the wall in front of the covered wall outlet.
US09509079B2
An assembling structure of an electronic component includes an electronic component including a component main body having a plurality of lead terminals protruding from side surfaces of the component main body, and a housing member in which the electronic component is inserted and accommodated and which holds a plurality of terminal fittings connected to the lead terminals. Each lead terminal includes a base end protruding from at least one side surface of the component main body and a connecting portion which is connected to the base end and which droops along the side surface, and the plurality of lead terminals are provided to be protruded from at least one side surface of the component main body in the width direction of the side surface. The side surface of the component main body is provided with an insulating member.
US09509076B2
It is aimed to suppress backlash between a receptacle and a connector main body without reducing the operability of a connector connecting operation. Backlash preventing portions (70) project on an outer peripheral surface of a connector main body (10) to be fitted into a mating receptacle (92). The backlash preventing portions (70) include circumferentially spaced front backlash preventing portions (71) on a front part of the connector main body (10) in a fitting direction into the receptacle (92) and circumferentially spaced rear backlash preventing portions (72) on a rear part of the connector main body (10) in the fitting direction into the receptacle (92). The respective front and rear backlash preventing portions (71, 72) are separated in a front-back direction without being connected to each other and are displaced from each other in the circumferential direction.
US09509073B2
An electrical connector assembly comprises a first connector, and a second connector mounted onto the first connector, a frame surrounding the connectors, a locking member, and a lever assemble the locking member to the frame. The locking member has a main body pivoting to the frame, a supporting portion being seated by the lever and a pushing portion. The main body locks the second connector, a user can press the lever to make the locking member to rotate, then to release the second connector, and upwardly push the second connector to apart the second connector from the first connector.
US09509072B2
A press-fit connector terminal includes: a terminal body having a length sufficient to pass through an electrically conductive through-hole formed through a circuit substrate; and a contact unit arranged around the terminal body so as to surround therewith about a central axis of the terminal body, the contact unit being formed capable of expanding/contracting in a radial direction around the central axis. The contact unit has rigidity lower than that of the terminal body, the terminal body is made of material with electrical conductivity greater than that of the contact unit; and when the terminal body and the contact unit are integrally inserted into the through-hole, a gap exists between the terminal body and the contact unit so that the contact unit is movable relative to the terminal body in the radial direction within the through-hole.
US09509071B2
A sealed circuit board connector for electrically connecting a connector to a circuit board. The connector includes an interface housing which has at least one signal contact in the connection region and which has at least two press-in elements with press-in zones. The interface housing is designed with a contact area for a seal. The seal is arranged in the sealing region of the circuit board plug. The seal has a passage opening for the at least one signal contact or contacts and has in each case one opening for the at least two press-in elements.
US09509070B2
There is provided a connector terminal to be inserted into and housed in a connector housing, the connector housing including a first space having an opening through which the connector terminal is inserted thereinto, and a second space into which a circuit board is fit, the second space being situated adjacent to the first space, the connector terminal including a hollow terminal body, and a resilient piece to be housed in the terminal body, the resilient piece including a contact portion resiliently protruding into the second space from the first space, the terminal body including a stopper restricting movement of the resilient piece in a direction opposite to a direction in which the connector terminal is inserted into the first space.
US09509068B2
A terminal strip and a method of improving a creepage dielectric strength of the same includes a base plate, a barrier, each constructed from an insulating material, and a plurality of terminals constructed from a conducting material. The terminals are connected to the base plate and spaced along a surface thereof. The barrier is disposed between adjacent terminals and configured such that the creepage dielectric strength of the insulating material between adjacent terminals is equal to or greater than a bulk dielectric strength of the insulating material between adjacent terminals.
US09509067B2
The reliability of electrical connectivity can be improved by a simple configuration while reducing the number of processes of connection of a coaxial cable. An outer conductor and a connector main-body part are configured to be electrically connected by pushing cable rupturing parts, which are projecting toward an inner side from a radial-direction outer side of a coaxial cable placed on a connector main-body part, against the radial-direction inner side toward the coaxial cable and rupturing an outer-periphery covering material of the coaxial cable. As a result, when electrical connection with respect to the outer conductor of the coaxial cable is to be established, a connecting operation is configured to be carried out without carrying out terminal treatment processing such as a strip process of ripping off a dielectric body or an insulator surrounding a central conductor and the outer conductor so that the connecting process with respect to the outer conductor of the coaxial cable is significantly simplified.
US09509061B2
An RFID reader is provided that includes an antenna array comprising multiple antenna elements circumferentially distributed around a longitudinal axis of the antenna array. Each antenna element includes multiple patch elements disposed above one or more underlying substrates, wherein the patch elements of each antenna element are disposed on an outer side of the antenna element. Further, one or more of the antenna elements is an asymmetric antenna element, wherein a first end of the asymmetric antenna element is wider than a second, opposite end of the asymmetric antenna element, wherein a first patch element disposed proximate to the first end of the asymmetric antenna element is larger than a second patch element disposed proximate to the second end of the asymmetric antenna element, and wherein a resonant frequency associated with the first patch element is approximately the same as a resonant frequency associated with the second patch element.
US09509060B2
An open waveguide antenna for a radio frequency identification reader includes a conductive annular waveguide concentric about an axis and configured for operation within an operating frequency band. A radiating slot is formed in at least one wall of the waveguide is also concentric about the axis. An odd-multiple of ports are electrically coupled to the annular waveguide, where the ports are equally spaced around the waveguide at a spacing between adjacent ports of one-half of a guided wavelength at a center frequency of the operating band. A second waveguide, smaller than the first, can also be incorporated. The second waveguide can have a different slot arrangement and fewer ports. The rectangular waveguides can operate in a non-transverse electromagnetic mode, and the ports can be individually driven to beamform the radiated signal of the antenna.
US09509058B2
A high-frequency module includes an integrated body including a semiconductor chip and a reflector, the semiconductor and the reflector being integrated by a resin; an antenna provided with a space from the reflector; and a rewiring layer provided on the surface of the integrated body, the rewiring layer including a rewiring line electrically coupling the semiconductor chip to the antenna. Further, a method for manufacturing a high-frequency module, the method includes forming an integrated body by integrating a semiconductor chip with a reflector by a resin; and forming a rewiring layer on the surface of the integrated body, the rewiring layer including a rewiring line electrically coupling the semiconductor chip to an antenna provided with a space from the reflector.
US09509054B2
A right-hand circular polarized antenna and associated methods. In one embodiment, a quarter-wave antenna configuration is used within a small form factor portable device (e.g. wristwatch). The antenna comprises a radiator element which operates in as a linear polarized antenna while the device is operating in free space. However, when the device is attached to a user (e.g. at a user's wrist), the antenna utilizes the loading of the user's body tissue in order to suppress unwanted signals (e.g. left hand polarized signals) to permit operation in circular polarized mode (e.g. right hand polarized mode), thereby allowing for increased sensitivity to received circularly polarized signals such as those emanated from global positioning satellites.
US09509051B2
A plurality of first linear sections in a coil conductor are disposed on a lower surface of a first resin sheet. A plurality of second linear sections in the coil conductor are disposed on an upper surface of a second resin sheet. A plurality of via conductors in the coil conductor are disposed in the resin sheets. The coil conductor including the linear sections and the via conductors constitutes an antenna section. A first ground conductor is disposed on the lower surface of a third resin sheet. A second ground conductor is disposed on the upper surface of a fourth resin sheet. The first ground conductor and the second ground conductor are connected to each other by a interlayer connection conductor including a plurality of via conductors. The interlayer connection conductor does not define a closed loop surrounding the coil conductor.
US09509042B1
Antenna structures and methods of operating the same are described. One apparatus includes a metal cover having a first corner ground element, a second corner ground element, a first strip element, a second strip element, a radio frequency (RF) feed, and a RF circuit. The first strip element is physically separated from the first corner ground element by a first cutout in the metal cover. The first strip element is physically separated from the second strip element by a second cutout in the metal cover. The second strip element is physically separated from the second corner ground element by a third cutout in the metal cover. The RF circuitry is coupled to the RF feed, where the RF circuitry is operable to cause the first corner ground element and the first strip element as well as the second corner ground element and the second strip element to radiate electromagnetic energy.
US09509039B2
A portable terminal includes a metal frame on which an LCD is mounted, the metal frame being grounded; and an antenna element that includes a feed point between a first end and a second end and is formed from the same piece of sheet metal used for the metal frame, the first end of the antenna element being connected to the metal frame.
US09509025B2
A method of recycling a battery pack (10) that includes an assembled battery composed of a plurality of electric cells that are connected in series to one another includes a heating process of heating the battery pack (10) by supplying a vapor supplied from a vapor boiler (14) into a heat treatment bath (12) for heating the battery pack (10) to replace a space in the heat treatment bath (12) with the vapor, and a condensation process of condensing thermolysis products, which are discharged from the battery pack (10) through the heating process, by a condenser (18).
US09509019B2
Electroactive compositions are disclosed for use in lithium ion battery electrodes. The compositions, such as multifunctional mixed metal olivines, provide an electrochemical cell having a plurality of open circuit voltages at different states of charge. The compositions afford improved state-of-charge monitoring, overcharge protection and/or overdischarge protection for lithium ion batteries.
US09509016B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a battery having excellent durability at high temperature and high voltage. The present invention is a battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte contains (i) a compound represented by the general formula (1): Rf—SO2F (1) (where Rf is a C1-13 linear or branched fluorine-containing alkyl group optionally containing an ether bond and optionally containing a double bond).
US09509015B2
A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics even if the thickness of an anode active material layer is increased is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, and the anode active material layer contains a carbon material and has a thickness of 30 μm or more. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt, and the solvent contains at least one of sulfone compounds such as a cyclic disulfonic acid anhydride.
US09509014B2
A galvanic cell having a lithium metal or an alloy comprising a lithium metal as anode material, having an electrolyte comprising lithium bis(oxalate)borate and at least one other lithium complex salt in an aprotic solvent or solvent mixture, in the ratio of lithium complex salt in the conducting salt equals 0.01 to 20 mol %.
US09509012B2
In a lithium ion secondary battery, a negative electrode sheet is made of a metal foil and an active material layer containing active material particles. The negative active material layer includes a facing portion that faces a positive active material layer and a non-facing portion that does not face the same. The negative active material particles can be oriented in a magnetic field direction. When an angle between an extending direction of a major axis of the cross section of each particle and the metal foil is θ, the number of particles with the angle θ of 60°-90° is MA, the number of negative active material particles with the angle θ of 0°-30° is MB, and a value MA/MB is assumed to be an orientation degree (AL) of particles, the negative active material layer is made such that an orientation degree (AL1) in the non-facing portion is 1.2 or more.
US09509011B2
A method of rebalancing electrolytes in a redox flow battery system comprises directing hydrogen gas generated on the negative side of the redox flow battery system to a catalyst surface, and fluidly contacting the hydrogen gas with an electrolyte comprising a metal ion at the catalyst surface, wherein the metal ion is chemically reduced by the hydrogen gas at the catalyst surface, and a state of charge of the electrolyte and pH of the electrolyte remain substantially balanced.
US09509006B2
A fuel cell system (100) comprising: a fuel cell (1) for generating electric power using a fuel gas; a fuel gas generator section (2) for generating the fuel gas using a raw material gas; a combustor section (2a) for generating heat energy to be used for generating the fuel gas; an air feeder section (2b) for feeding aft when the heat energy is generated; and a controller section (101); wherein the fuel cell is filled with the raw material gas before the fuel gas is fed, and wherein the controller section (101) performs a control operation such that the feed rate of air supplied from the air feeder section (2b) to the combustor section (2a) increases when the fuel gas generated in the fuel gas generator section (2) is supplied to the fuel cell (1).
US09508996B2
Disclosed is a connector for a solid oxide fuel cell, which electrically connects tubular solid oxide fuel cells to each other. The connector includes a conductive body part having a first electrode contact groove and a second electrode contact groove. A first electrode contact part is formed on the top surface of the body part to receive at least a portion of an exposed first electrode portion and second electrode portion of a first solid oxide fuel cell, and is electrically connected to the first electrode of the first solid oxide fuel cell. A second electrode contact part is formed at the bottom surface of the body part so as to receive at least a portion of exposed first electrode portion and second electrode portion of a second solid oxide fuel cell, and is electrically connected to the second electrode of the second solid oxide fuel cell.
US09508992B2
Disclosed is a positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including a current collector and a mixture layer attached thereto. The mixture layer includes an active material including particles of a first active material, i.e., a lithium-manganese composite oxide, and particles of a second active material, i.e., a lithium-nickel composite oxide. A proportion of the first active material particles in the active material is 51 vol % to 90 vol %. A volume-based particle size distribution of the first active material particles has a first peak on a larger particle side and a second peak on a smaller particle side. A first particle size D1 corresponding to the first peak is 2.5 to 5 times larger than a second particle size D2 corresponding to the second peak. A volume-based particle size distribution of the second active material particles has a third peak corresponding to a third particle size D3 satisfying D1>D3>D2.
US09508990B2
Disclosed is a Si-based alloy anode material for lithium ion secondary batteries, including an alloy phase with a Si principal phase including Si and a compound phase including two or more elements, which includes a first additional element A selected from Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zr, Nb and Mg and a low-melting second additional element B selected from S, Se, Te, Sn, In, Ga, Pb, Bi, Zn, Al. This compound phase includes (i) a first compound phase including Si and the first additional element A; a second compound phase including the first additional element A and the second additional element B; and one or both of a third compound phase including two or more of the second additional elements B and a single phase of the second additional element B.
US09508979B2
A battery comprising a positive electrode; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer that is formed on at least one surface of a negative electrode collector; and an electrolyte, wherein in the negative electrode active material layer from the negative electrode collector up to ½ of a layer thickness in a surface direction of the negative electrode active material layer, a pore volume ratio expressed as (pore volume B/pore volume A) that is a ratio of a pore volume A (ml/g) in a range of 0.001 μm or more and 0.4 μm or less of a pore diameter measured by a mercury porosimeter and a pore volume B (ml/g) in a range of 0.4 μm or more and 10 μm or less of the pore diameter is 1.4 or more and 3.4 or less.
US09508974B2
A PET nonwoven fabric for a separator for a secondary battery includes first fibers composed of PET having a melting temperature of 240° C. or more and second fibers composed of PET having a melting temperature of 180˜220° C., respective fibers having two types of fibers having different diameters, and has a fine pore size and uniform pore distribution and exhibits superior surface properties, low surface defects, high mechanical strength and excellent mass production. Even when the temperature of a battery is increased to 200° C. or more, the PET nonwoven fabric has heat resistance which prevents thermal runaway and does not generate melting and shrinking.
US09508972B2
The invention relates to a venting device (1) for an electrochemical battery (90). The venting device comprises at least one inlet opening (2) for receiving gases venting from the battery (90), at least one outlet opening (3) for venting the gases received from the battery (90), and at least one flame arrester element (4). The inlet opening (2) is in communication with the outlet opening (3) via the flame arrester element (4). An explosion chamber (5, 6) is located within the venting device (1) on the side of the flame arrester element (4) which is directed to the outlet opening (3). The explosion chamber (5, 6) is arranged for developing and temporarily storing an explosive mixture of the gases received from the battery (90) and oxygen from the ambient air, which explodes in case a flame occurs within the explosion chamber (5, 6), thereby blowing off the flame.
US09508964B2
A voltage detecting terminal includes a flat plate-shaped electric contact portion having an insertion hole into which an electrode column of a battery is inserted, and a bent portion formed such that a tip is bent upward with respect to the electric contact portion. The bent portion is provided with a holding portion, and both ends of the holding portion in a plate width direction are expanded in the plate width direction, respectively. The voltage detecting terminal has a lower end surface of the holding portion in a thickness direction abutting against supporting surfaces of the plate and is held by a first housing portion.
US09508961B2
To provide a method for manufacturing a lightweight light-emitting device having a light-emitting region on a curved surface. The light-emitting region is provided on a curved surface in such a manner that a light-emitting element is formed on a flexible substrate supported in a plate-like shape and the flexible substrate deforms or returns.
US09508954B2
In an aspect, an organic light-emitting display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The organic light-emitting display apparatus may include a substrate; a display unit formed on the substrate; and a thin film encapsulating layer encapsulating the display unit. The thin film encapsulating layer may include a plurality of organic layers and inorganic layers that are laminated alternately. At least one of the plurality of the inorganic films may include a first layer formed of a first material, a second layer formed of a second material other than the first material, and an intermediate layer provided between the first and second layers.
US09508939B2
A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein in the formula, L1 is a single bond or a linking group, A is a group represented by the following formula (A), B is a group represented by the following formula (B), m is an integer of 1 to 3, and n is an integer of 1 to 4.
US09508936B2
A novel compound useful as organic semiconductor material, and semiconductor devices containing such organic semiconductor material are described.
US09508935B2
A function layer ink used for forming a function layer by a liquid coating process contains a function layer material containing a macromolecular material or a low-molecular-weight material, and a mixed solvent containing solvent A and solvent B. Solvent A has a viscosity in the range of 0.01 to 0.05 Pa·s, and solvent B has a viscosity of less than 0.01 Pa·s and a lower boiling point than solvent A. The mixed solvent has a viscosity of less than 0.02 Pa·s and a boiling point in the range of 200 to 350° C., and contains 0.1% to 10% by weight of solvent A.
US09508928B2
A resistive memory structure includes two electrodes sandwiching an insulating region. The structure further includes a nanochannel array providing a conducting path between the two electrodes. The nanochannel array includes a plurality of nanowires that extends from one electrode to the other.
US09508927B1
A method of manufacturing a phase change memory includes: (i) forming a first dielectric layer, a conductive contact and a first electrode over a semiconductor substrate; (ii) forming a second dielectric layer having an opening over the first dielectric layer, the opening exposing a top surface of the first electrode; (iii) forming a barrier layer lining a sidewall of the opening; (iv) forming a phase change element in the opening, wherein the phase change element includes a base and a peripheral wall extending upwards along the barrier layer from a periphery of the base, and an inner side of the peripheral wall defines a recess having an inlet and a bottom portion; (v) forming a heater filled in the recess; and (vi) forming a second electrode over the heater. A phase change memory is disclosed herein as well.
US09508926B2
A magnetoresistive effect element includes a recording layer having magnetic anisotropy and a variable magnetization direction, a reference layer having magnetic anisotropy and an invariable magnetization direction, an intermediate layer between the recording layer and the reference layer, an underlayer containing scandium (Sc) and disposed on a surface side of the recording layer opposite to a surface side on which the recording layer is disposed, and a side wall layer containing an oxide of Sc and disposed on side surfaces of the recording layer and the intermediate layer.
US09508923B2
A magnetic memory includes: a base layer; a magnetization free layer; a barrier layer; and a magnetization reference layer. The magnetization free layer, with which the base layer is covered, has invertible magnetization and is magnetized approximately uniformly. The barrier layer, with which the magnetization free layer is covered, is composed of material different from material of the base layer. The magnetization reference layer is arranged on the barrier layer and has a fixed magnetization. When the magnetization of the magnetization free layer is inverted, a first writing current is made to flow from one end to the other end of the magnetization free layer in an in-plane direction without through the magnetization reference layer.
US09508915B2
Embodiments related to a piezoelectric bender that comprises a spring and mass element to provide additional constructive resonance. An embodiment provides an apparatus comprising: a base plate; a piezoelectric body coupled to the base plate; a spring coupled to the base plate; and a mass element coupled to the spring, wherein the base plate, the piezoelectric body, the spring, and the mass element are operable to produce at least two resonance frequencies in the apparatus.
US09508908B2
In one embodiment, the transparent growth substrate (38) of an LED die is formed to have light scattering areas (40A-C), such as voids formed by a laser. In another embodiment, the growth substrate is removed and replaced by another substrate that is formed with light scattering areas. In one embodiment, the light scattering areas are formed over the light absorbing areas of the LED die, to reduce the amount of incident light on those absorbing areas, and over the sides (42A, 42B) of the substrate to reduce light guiding. Another embodiment comprises a replacement substrate may be formed to include reflective particles in selected areas where there are no corresponding light generating areas in the LED semiconductor layers such as—type metal contacts (28). This prevents reabsorption into absorbing regions of the semiconductor layer thereby enhancing external efficiency of the device. A 3D structure may be formed by stacking substrate layers containing the reflective areas. The substrate may be a transparent substrate or a phosphor tile (20) that is affixed to the top of the LED.
US09508903B2
An optoelectronic component includes at least one inorganic optoelectronically active semiconductor component having an active region that emits or receives light during operation, and a sealing material applied by atomic layer deposition on at least one surface region, the sealing material covering the surface region in a hermetically impermeable manner.
US09508897B2
The present invention relates to a multi-luminous element and a method for manufacturing the same. The present invention provides the multi-luminous element comprising: a buffer layer disposed on a substrate; a first type semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer; a first active layer which is disposed on the first type semiconductor layer and is patterned to expose a part of the first type semiconductor layer; a second active layer disposed on the first type semiconductor layer which is exposed by the first active layer; and a second type semiconductor layer disposed on the first active layer and the second active layer, the first and second active layers being repeatedly disposed in the horizontal direction, and the method for manufacturing the same. The multi-luminous element according to the present invention reduces loss of light emitting efficiency and can generate multi-wavelength light by repeatedly disposing the first and second active layers in the horizontal direction.
US09508894B2
A method of selectively transferring semiconductor devices comprises the steps of providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; providing a plurality of semiconductor epitaxial stacks on the first surface, wherein each of the plurality of semiconductor epitaxial stacks comprises a first semiconductor epitaxial stack and a second semiconductor epitaxial stack, and the first semiconductor epitaxial stack is apart from the second semiconductor epitaxial stack, and wherein a adhesion between the first semiconductor epitaxial stack and the substrate is different from a adhesion between the second semiconductor epitaxial stack and the substrate; and selectively separating the first semiconductor epitaxial stack or the second semiconductor epitaxial stack from the substrate.
US09508891B2
A method for making a light-emitting device comprises the steps of: providing a growth substrate; forming a first light-emitting semiconductor stack on the growth substrate by epitaxial growth, and the first light-emitting semiconductor stack comprises a first active layer; forming a Distributed Bragg reflector on the first light-emitting semiconductor stack by epitaxial growth; forming a second light-emitting semiconductor stack on the Distributed Bragg reflector by epitaxial growth, and the second light-emitting semiconductor stack comprises a second active layer; and wherein the first active layer emits a first radiation of a first dominant wavelength, and the second active layer emits a second radiation of a second dominant wavelength longer than the first dominant wavelength.
US09508889B2
A method is presented for forming a Ge containing layer on a Si substrate. The method includes providing a crystalline Si substrate having a surface that has a crystallographic orientation, heating the Si substrate in a vacuum environment, exposing the Si substrate to a surfactant that is suitable for growth of the Ge containing layer on the crystalline Si using surfactant mediation, and thereafter growing the Ge containing layer on the surface of the heated Si substrate using a suitable sputtering technique. The conditions of the growth of the Ge containing layer are selected such that a thin Ge containing layer is formed on the surface of the Si substrate. The thin Ge containing layer has a surface that has crystallographic properties suitable for epitaxial growth of a layer of a further material on the surface of the thin Ge containing layer.
US09508884B2
A solar cell and a method of forming a contact structure on a solar cell having a p-n junction formed between a first semiconductor region of a first dopant polarity and a second semiconductor region of a second dopant polarity opposite to the first dopant polarity. The method comprises: forming a plurality of contact points on a surface of the solar cell, whereby the contact points provide an electrical connection to the first semiconductor region; and locating a plurality of conducting wires over the solar cell to make electrical connection to the contact points. The contact points are either an exposed silicon surface or a silicon surface over which metal pads are formed. The metal pads may comprise a plated layer of a low-melting temperature metal and/or may have a thickness of less than 5 microns.
US09508864B2
To provide a crystalline oxide semiconductor which can be used as a semiconductor of a transistor or the like. The crystalline oxide semiconductor is an oxide over a surface and includes a plurality of flat-plate-like In—Ga—Zn oxides. Each of the plurality of flat-plate-like In—Ga—Zn oxides has a crystal structure and includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer includes a gallium atom, a zinc atom, and an oxygen atom. The second layer includes an indium atom and an oxygen atom. The third layer includes a gallium atom, a zinc atom, and an oxygen atom. A flat plane of each of the plurality of flat-plate-like In—Ga—Zn oxides is substantially perpendicular to a normal vector of the surface.
US09508863B2
A transistor is provided in which the bottom surface portion of an oxide semiconductor film is provided with a metal oxide film containing a constituent similar to that of the oxide semiconductor film, and an insulating film containing a different constituent from the metal oxide film and the oxide semiconductor film is formed in contact with a surface of the metal oxide film, which is opposite to the surface in contact with the oxide semiconductor film. In addition, the oxide semiconductor film used for the active layer of the transistor is an oxide semiconductor film highly purified to be electrically i-type (intrinsic) through heat treatment in which impurities such as hydrogen, moisture, hydroxyl, and hydride are removed from the oxide semiconductor and oxygen which is one of main component materials of the oxide semiconductor is supplied and is also reduced in a step of removing impurities.
US09508861B2
A semiconductor device which includes an oxide semiconductor and in which formation of a parasitic channel due to a gate BT stress is suppressed is provided. Further, a semiconductor device including a transistor having excellent electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor having a dual-gate structure in which an oxide semiconductor film is provided between a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode; gate insulating films are provided between the oxide semiconductor film and the first gate electrode and between the oxide semiconductor film and the second gate electrode; and in the channel width direction of the transistor, the first or second gate electrode faces a side surface of the oxide semiconductor film with the gate insulating film between the oxide semiconductor film and the first or second gate electrode.
US09508853B2
One method of forming epi semiconductor cladding materials in the channel region of a semiconductor device is disclosed which includes forming a sacrificial gate structure around a portion of an initial fin, forming a sidewall spacer adjacent opposite sides of the sacrificial gate structure and removing the sacrificial gate structure so as to thereby define a replacement gate cavity, performing an etching process through the replacement gate cavity to remove portions of the initial fin so as to thereby define a reduced size fin and recesses under the sidewall spacers, forming at least one replacement epi semiconductor cladding material around the reduced size fin in the replacement gate cavity and in the recesses under the sidewall spacers, and forming a replacement gate structure within the replacement gate cavity around the at least one replacement epi semiconductor cladding material.
US09508852B2
The present invention discloses a radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) multi-gate device and a fabrication method thereof. The multi-gate device of the present invention includes a substrate; a source region and a drain region, which are on the substrate; a protruding fin structure and a field dielectric layer between the source region and the drain region on the substrate; a gate dielectric and a gate electrode on the fin structure and the dielectric layer; and two isolation layers separated to each other, which are disposed in the drain region between the adjacent two fins, wherein an interlayer is sandwiched between the two isolation layers. The interlayer has a doping type which is opposite to that of the substrate so that a shunt PN junction is formed between the interlayer and the substrate, and the shunt PN junction has an electrode not connected to the drain so that a part of the charges collected by the shunt PN junction are not output to the drain and are ultimately guided out of the multi-gate devices, thereby weakening the influence of the single-event effect. In comparison with a multi-gate device of prior art, the multi-gate device of the present invention may effectively suppress the sensitivity of the device to single event irradiation in the event that the layout areas of the two types of devices are almost same.
US09508851B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided that includes providing a material stack that includes a silicon layer, a doped semiconductor layer, and an undoped silicon germanium layer. At least one fin structure is formed from the material stack by etching through the undoped silicon germanium layer, the doped semiconductor layer, and etching a portion of the silicon-containing layer. An isolation region is formed in contact with at least one end of the at least one fin structure. An anodization process removes the doped semiconductor layer of the at least one fin structure to provide a void. A dielectric layer is deposited to fill the void that is present between the silicon layer and the doped semiconductor layer. Source and drain regions are then formed on a channel portion of the at least one fin structure.
US09508836B2
A non-volatile memory device comprising a plurality of strings each including a drain select transistor, drain-side memory cells, a pipe transistor, source-side memory cells, and a source select transistor coupled in series, wherein the plurality of strings are arranged in a first direction and a second direction, and the strings arranged in the second direction form each of string columns; a plurality of bit lines extended in the second direction and coupled to the drain select transistors of the strings included in each string column; and a plurality of source lines extended in the first direction and in common coupled to the source select transistors of strings adjacent to each other in the second direction, wherein strings included in one of the string columns are staggered in the first direction and each of the string columns are coupled to at least two of the bit lines.
US09508829B1
A semiconductor device includes a gate positioned on a substrate; a nanosheet that extends through the gate, protrudes from a sidewall of the gate, and forms a recess between the substrate and the nanosheet; a dielectric spacer disposed in the recess; a source/drain contact positioned on a source/drain disposed on the substrate adjacent to the gate; an air gap spacer positioned along the sidewall of the gate and in contact with a dielectric material disposed on the nanosheet, the air gap spacer being in contact with the source/drain contact; and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) disposed on the air gap spacer.
US09508828B2
A method of fabricating an array substrate includes forming a first metal layer, a gate insulating material layer and an oxide semiconductor material layer on a substrate; heat-treating the substrate having the oxide semiconductor material layer at a temperature of about 300 degrees Celsius to about 500 degrees Celsius; patterning the oxide semiconductor material layer, the gate insulating material layer and the first metal layer, thereby forming a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer and an oxide semiconductor layer; forming a gate line connected to the gate electrode and made of low resistance metal material; forming source and drain electrodes, a data line and a pixel electrode, the source and drain electrodes and the data line having a double-layered structure of a transparent conductive material layer and a low resistance metal material layer, the pixel electrode made of the transparent conductive material layer.
US09508822B2
A semiconductor device comprises: a gate insulating film 190 stacked on a semiconductor layer 130; and a gate electrode layer 230 stacked on the gate insulating film 190 and provided to apply a voltage via the gate insulating film 190 for formation of a channel in the semiconductor layer 130. The gate insulating film 190 includes: a first insulation film 192 stacked on the semiconductor layer 130; and a second insulation film 194 between the first insulation film 192 and the gate electrode layer 230. When ∈1 and ∈2 respectively represent relative permittivities of the first and second insulation film 192, 194, d1 [nm] and d2 [nm] represent film thicknesses of the first and second insulation film 192, 194, and Vmax [V] represents a rated voltage applicable to the gate electrode layer 230, the semiconductor device is configured to satisfy ∈1<∈2 and meet (C1): V max d 1 + ɛ 1 ɛ 2 · d 2 ≦ 21 [ M V / cm ] . ( C1 )
US09508820B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate insulation layer pattern, a lower gate electrode, an upper gate electrode, and a first inner spacer. The gate insulation layer pattern is formed on a substrate. The lower gate electrode is formed on the gate insulation layer pattern. The upper gate electrode is formed on the lower gate electrode and has a width that gradually increases from a bottom portion toward a top portion thereof. The width of the bottom portion of the upper gate electrode is smaller than a width of a top surface of the lower gate electrode. The first inner spacer surrounds a sidewall of the upper gate electrode.
US09508816B2
A first sacrificial gate structure of a first width and a second sacrificial gate structure of a second width greater than the first width are provided on a semiconductor material portion. A dielectric spacer and a planarizing dielectric material are provided surrounding each sacrificial gate structure. Each sacrificial gate structure is then removed forming gate cavities. A high k dielectric material, a metal nitride hard mask and a physical vapor deposited (PVD) amorphous-silicon cap are provided. Vertical portions of the metal nitride hard mask and the high k dielectric material are removed from a portion of each gate cavity. Additional PVD amorphous silicon is then deposited and then all amorphous silicon and remaining metal nitride hard mask portions are removed. A work function portion having a stair-like surface, a diffusion barrier portion, a conductive metal structure and a dielectric cap are then formed into to each of the gate cavities.
US09508815B2
A semiconductor device is provided including a substrate and a plurality of gate stacks. The gate stack includes a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, a first capping layer disposed on the dielectric layer, a second capping layer disposed on the first capping layer, and a gate electrode layer covering the second capping layer. The first capping layer having a roughened surface may enhance the formation of the second capping layer. The second capping layer has a bottom portion and a sidewall portion, and the thickness of the bottom portion is formed to be greater than the thickness of the sidewall portion, so that the dielectric property of the second capping layer may be significantly improved. Further, a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device also provides herein.
US09508813B1
The present invention provides a transistor comprising a substrate having a surface; a first deep well region in the substrate; a second deep well region in the substrate, isolated from and encircling the first deep well region; a first well region in the substrate and on the first deep well region; two second well regions in the second deep well region and respectively at two opposite sides of the first well region; a source region in the first well region and adjacent to the surface; two drain regions in the two second well regions respectively and adjacent to the surface; two gate structures on the surface, wherein each of the two gate structures is between the source region and one of the drain regions respectively; and a guard ring in the substrate encircling the second deep well region, and on the periphery of the transistor.
US09508803B2
[Problem] To provide a semiconductor device in which the surface of a metal electrode arranged on the outermost surface can be made flat or smooth, and a method for producing said semiconductor device.[Solution] This semiconductor device (1) comprises: an SiC epitaxial layer (3) that has an uneven shape formed, on the basis of a height difference (H1), on the outermost surface where a semiconductor element (MOSFET) is arranged; and a source electrode (13) made of a metal material and formed on the SiC epitaxial layer (3). A polysilicon layer (12) having a surface (121) that is smoother than said uneven shape is provided between the surface (31) of the SiC epitaxial layer (3) and the source electrode (13).
US09508801B2
In an aspect of the present invention, a graphene field-effect transistor (GFET) structure is formed. The GFET structure comprises a wider portion and a narrow extension portion extending from the wider portion that includes one or more graphene layers edge contacted to source and drain contacts, wherein the source and drain contacts are self-aligned to the one or more graphene layers.
US09508799B2
A method for fabricating substrate of a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a first silicon layer; forming a dielectric layer on the first silicon layer; bonding a second silicon layer to the dielectric layer; removing part of the second silicon layer and part of the dielectric layer to define a first region and a second region on the first silicon layer, wherein the remaining of the second silicon layer and the dielectric layer are on the second region; and forming an epitaxial layer on the first region of the first silicon layer, wherein the epitaxial layer and the second silicon layer comprise same crystalline orientation.
US09508792B2
An electric field buffer layer is formed so as to surround an active region. The electric field buffer layer includes a plurality of P-type impurity layers. Each of the P-type impurity layers includes P-type implantation layers and P-type diffusion layers that are formed so as to respectively surround the P-type implantation layers and contain P-type impurities at a concentration lower than that of the P-type implantation layers. A first P-type implantation layer is formed to be in contact with or to partially overlap the active region. Each of the P-type diffusion layers is formed to have an expansion to a degree to which the first P-type diffusion layer is in contact with or overlaps a second P-type diffusion layer. Intervals between the P-type implantation layers increase from the active region toward the outer peripheral portion of the semiconductor substrate.
US09508790B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming an opening having a sidewall in a substrate and forming a first epitaxial layer in the opening. The first epitaxial layer is formed in a first portion of the sidewall without growing in a second portion of the sidewall. A second epitaxial layer is formed in the opening after forming the first epitaxial layer. The second epitaxial layer is formed in the second portion of the sidewall. The first epitaxial layer is removed after forming the second epitaxial layer.
US09508785B1
A semiconductor device including a resistor metallic layer and method forming the same. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a source region and a drain region of a semiconductor switch on a substrate. The semiconductor device also includes the resistor metallic layer over the source region and the drain region of the semiconductor switch. The resistor metallic layer includes a first resistor with a first resistor metallic strip coupled between a first cross member and a second cross member of the resistor metallic layer.
US09508781B2
A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display including multilayer structures that are each formed in a respective one of pixel areas in an effective area of a substrate and are each formed by a lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode, the organic electroluminescence display having a common electrode that electrically connects the pixel areas, the method including the steps of: forming a protective electrode and an outer-peripheral electrode that are electrically connected to the common electrode; forming the multilayer structures; and carrying out film deposition treatment involving electrification of the substrate.
US09508770B2
A solid-state imaging device and method of making a solid-state imaging device are described herein. By way of example, the solid-state imaging device includes a first wiring layer formed on a sensor substrate and a second wiring layer formed on a circuit substrate. The sensor substrate is coupled to the circuit substrate, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer being positioned between the sensor substrate and the circuit substrate. A first electrode is formed on a surface of the first wiring layer, and a second electrode is formed on a surface of the second wiring layer. The first electrode is in electrical contact with the second electrode.
US09508769B1
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor structure comprising: a substrate, a radiation-sensing region in the substrate, and a trench in the substrate including a liner over an inner wall of the trench, a FSG layer over the line, an oxide layer over the FSG layer, and a reflective material over the oxide layer. The radiation-sensing region of the semiconductor structure comprises a plurality of radiation-sensing units. The trench of the semiconductor structure separates at least two of the radiation-sensing units. The FSG layer of the semiconductor structure comprises at least 2 atomic percent free fluorine and a thickness of from about 500 to about 1300 angstroms.
US09508740B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a memory cell array configured having a plurality of memory units, each of the memory units including a plurality of memory cells connected in series, the plurality of memory cells being stacked, the plurality of memory units involving a first memory unit and a second memory unit; and a plurality of bit lines connected to ends of each of the memory units in the memory cell array. The first memory unit and the second memory unit are arranged in a staggered manner by the first memory unit being displaced in a row direction with respect to the second memory unit by an amount less than an arrangement pitch in a row direction of the first memory unit or the second memory unit.
US09508739B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body including a plurality of electrode members and a plurality of insulating members, each of the electrode members and each of the insulating members being stacked alternately in a first direction on the substrate. The semiconductor memory device also includes a memory hole that extends in the stacked body in the first direction and a semiconductor member that is disposed to extend in the memory hole in the first direction. The semiconductor memory device also includes a memory member that is disposed between the semiconductor member and the plurality of electrode members. The plurality of electrode members including a first electrode member and a second electrode member, a thickness of the memory member at the position of the first electrode member being greater than a thickness of the memory member at the position of the second electrode member.
US09508735B2
An apparatus, a method, and a system are disclosed. The apparatus includes a string of memory cells coupled to a select gate drain transistor that has a front control gate and a back control gate. The front and back control gates can be coupled together such that they are biased at the same voltage or separate such that they can be biased at different voltages.
US09508730B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate in which a cell region and contact regions located at both sides of the cell region are defined, a first source layer formed over the substrate, a second source layer formed over the first source layer, a reinforcement pattern formed in the second source layer, a stacked structure including conductive layers and insulating layers alternately stacked over the second source layer and the reinforcement pattern, channel layers passing through the stacked structure and the second source layer and electrically coupled to the second source layer, and an isolation insulating pattern passing through at least one top conductive layer of the conductive layers.
US09508724B2
DRAM trench capacitors formed by, inter alia, deposition of conductive material into a trench or doping the semiconductor region in which the trench is defined.
US09508717B2
The present disclosure provides integrated circuit (IC) devices and repair methods of the IC devices. An IC device includes a PMOS transistor including a substrate, a gate dielectric layer on the substrate, and a gate on the gate dielectric layer. The IC device also includes a repair circuit configured to apply a negative bias voltage to the substrate of the PMOS transistor, when the PMOS transistor is in an OFF state, to cause injections of electrons in the substrate into the gate dielectric layer to neutralize holes caused by negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) effect. The repair circuit is further configured to stop applying the negative bias voltage to the substrate of the PMOS transistor when the PMOS transistor is in an ON state. As such, the disclosed IC device repairs defect caused by NBTI effect in the PMOS transistor and prolongs the lifespan of the PMOS transistor.
US09508715B1
The present invention provides a semiconductor structure including a substrate, having a recess disposed thereon. Two first protruding portions are disposed on two sides of the recess respectively, an epitaxial layer is disposed in the recess, and an insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. A top portion of the first protruding portion is higher than a top surface of the insulating layer.
US09508713B2
A method of forming a fin-based field-effect transistor device includes forming one or more first fins comprising silicon on a substrate, forming epitaxial layers on sides of the one or more first fins, and removing the one or more first fins to form a plurality of second fins.
US09508691B1
Stacked microelectronic packages comprise microelectronic elements each having a contact-bearing front surface and edge surfaces extending away therefrom, and a dielectric encapsulation region contacting an edge surface. The encapsulation defines first and second major surfaces of the package and a remote surface between the major surfaces. Package contacts at the remote surface include a first set of contacts at positions closer to the first major surface than a second set of contacts, which instead are at positions closer to the second major surface. The packages are configured such that major surfaces of each package can be oriented in a nonparallel direction with the major surface of a substrate, the package contacts electrically coupled to corresponding contacts at the substrate surface. The package stacking and orientation can provide increased packing density.
US09508689B2
Methods for forming connectors on die pads at a wafer level of processing include forming spots of a curable electrically conductive material over die pads and extending to or over the interconnect die edge; curing the conductive material; and in a wafer cutting procedure thereafter severing the spots. Also, die pad to z-interconnect connectors formed by the methods, and shaped and dimensioned accordingly. Also, stacked die assemblies and stacked die packages containing die prepared according to the methods and having die pad to z-interconnect connectors formed by the methods and shaped and dimensioned accordingly.
US09508681B2
An apparatus is described that includes a first semiconductor chip having a first pixel array. The first pixel array has visible light sensitive pixels. The apparatus includes a second semiconductor chip having a second pixel array. The first semiconductor chip is stacked on the second semiconductor chip such that the second pixel array resides beneath the first pixel array. The second pixel array has IR light sensitive pixels for time-of-flight based depth detection.
US09508679B2
A mounting method of mounting chips on a substrate includes a temporarily-bonding process, and a main-bonding process. Temporarily-bonding process is to perform a first basic process, repeatedly depending on the number of the chips. First basic process includes a first step and a second step. First step is to align, on a first metal layer of the substrate, a second metal layer of each chip. Second step is to temporarily bond each chip by subjecting the first and second metal layers to solid phase diffusion bonding. Main-bonding process is to perform a second basic process, repeatedly depending on the number of the chips. Second basic process includes a third step and a fourth step. Third step is to recognize a position of each chip temporarily mounted on the substrate. Fourth step is to firmly bond each chip by subjecting the first and second metal layers to liquid phase diffusion bonding.
US09508675B2
A method of fabricating a microelectronic package having a direct contact heat spreader, a package formed according to the method, a die-heat spreader combination formed according to the method, and a system incorporating the package. The method comprises metallizing a backside of a microelectronic die to form a heat spreader body directly contacting and fixed to the backside of the die thus yielding a die-heat spreader combination. The package includes the die-heat spreader combination and a substrate bonded to the die.
US09508674B2
Various embodiments of mechanisms for forming a die package using a compressive dielectric layer to contact and to surround through substrate vias (TSVs) in the die package are provided. The compressive dielectric layer reduces or eliminates bowing of the die package. As a result, the risk of broken redistribution layer (RDL) due to bowing is reduced or eliminated. In addition, the compressive dielectric layer, which is formed between the conductive TSV columns and surrounding molding compound, improves the adhesion between the conductive TSV columns and the molding compound. Consequently, the reliability of the die package is improved.
US09508668B2
A bump structure includes a contact element formed on a substrate and a passivation layer overlying the substrate. The passivation layer includes a passivation opening exposing the contact element. The bump structure also includes a polyimide layer overlying the passivation layer and an under bump metallurgy (UBM) feature electrically coupled to the contact element. The polyimide layer has a polyimide opening exposing the contact element, and the under bump metallurgy feature has a UBM width. The bump structure further includes a copper pillar on the under bump metallurgy feature. A distal end of the copper pillar has a pillar width, and the UBM width is greater than the pillar width.
US09508666B2
A package component is free from active devices therein. The package component includes a substrate, a through-via in the substrate, a top dielectric layer over the substrate, and a metal pillar having a top surface over a top surface of the top dielectric layer. The metal pillar is electrically coupled to the through-via. A diffusion barrier is over the top surface of the metal pillar. A solder cap is disposed over the diffusion barrier.
US09508664B1
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a conductive structure over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes first metal oxide fibers over the conductive structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer over the substrate and covering the conductive structure and the first metal oxide fibers. The dielectric layer fills gaps between the first metal oxide fibers.
US09508661B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes an electrically conductive layer disposed over a substrate. A moisture barrier layer is disposed over the substrate and between the substrate and the electrically conductive layer. A dielectric layer is disposed over the moisture barrier layer. The dielectric layer has an elastic modulus that is lower than an elastic modulus of the moisture barrier layer.
US09508654B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a passivation film on a substrate including a plurality of element regions and a scribe region, forming a trench in the passivation film in a region of the scribe region along an outer edge of each of the element regions, and forming a film on the passivation film in which the trench has been formed by coating. A depth of a first section in a first position of the trench is shallower than a depth of a second section in a second position of the trench. A width of the first section is wider than a width of the second section.
US09508653B2
A method includes recording a wafer ID and a location ID of a device die in a database, and bonding the device die over a package substrate, wherein the device die and the package substrate are disposed in a package. A package ID is on the package. A mapping is established to link the wafer ID and the location ID of the device die to the package ID.
US09508652B1
A method for wafer level packaging includes forming one or more die, forming a plated metal ring (PMR) on each die, forming a cover wafer (CW), the CW having one or more plated seal rings, forming a body wafer (BW), the BW having cavities and a metal layer on a first side of the BW, aligning a respective die to the CW so that a PMR on the respective die is aligned to a respective plated seal ring (PSR) on the CW, bonding the PMR on the respective die to the respective PSR, aligning the BW to the CW so that a respective cavity of the BW surrounds each respective die bonded to the CW and so that the metal layer on the BW is aligned with at least one PSR on the CW, and bonding the metal layer on the first side of the BW to the PSR on the CW. Each PMR has a first height and each PSR has a second height.
US09508649B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a first interconnection structure and a second interconnection structure which are disposed on a semiconductor substrate. A contact structure may be disposed between the first and second interconnection structures. A first lower air spacer may be disposed between the first interconnection structure and the contact structure. A second lower air spacer may be disposed between the second interconnection structure and the contact structure to be spaced apart from the first lower air spacer. An upper air spacer may be disposed on side surfaces of the contact structure to be connected to the first and second interconnection structures.
US09508621B2
A semiconductor device has a stress relief buffer mounted to a temporary substrate in locations designated for bump formation. The stress relief buffer can be a multi-layer composite material such as a first compliant layer, a silicon layer formed over the first compliant layer, and a second compliant layer formed over the silicon layer. A semiconductor die is also mounted to the temporary substrate. The stress relief buffer can be thinner than the semiconductor die. An encapsulant is deposited between the semiconductor die and stress relief buffer. The temporary substrate is removed. An interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die, encapsulant, and stress relief buffer. The interconnect structure is electrically connected to the semiconductor die. A stiffener layer can be formed over the stress relief buffer and encapsulant. A circuit layer containing active devices, passive devices, conductive layers, and dielectric layers can be formed within the stress relief buffer.
US09508611B2
In a semiconductor inspection method using a semiconductor inspection device, by selecting an incident energy and a negative potential and scanning an inspection surface of a wafer with primary electrons to detect secondary electrons, a first inspection image is acquired, and a macro defect, stacking faults, a basal plane dislocation and a threading dislocation contained in the first inspection image are discriminated by image processing based on a threshold value of a signal amount of the secondary electrons determined in advance. Moreover, by selecting the incident energy and a positive potential and scanning the inspection surface of the wafer with primary electrons to detect the secondary electrons, a second inspection image is acquired, and a threading screw dislocation of a dot-shaped figure contained in the second inspection image is discriminated by image processing based on a threshold value of a signal amount of the secondary electrons determined in advance.
US09508605B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first doped region and a second doped region both formed in a substrate. The first and second doped regions are oppositely doped. The semiconductor device includes a first gate formed over the substrate. The first gate overlies a portion of the first doped region and a portion of the second doped region. The semiconductor device includes a second gate formed over the substrate. The second gate overlies a different portion of the second doped region. The semiconductor device includes a first voltage source that provides a first voltage to the second gate. The semiconductor device includes a second voltage source that provides a second voltage to the second doped region. The first and second voltages are different from each other.
US09508601B2
An integrated circuit with an MOS transistor abutting field oxide and a gate structure on the field oxide adjacent to the MOS transistor and a gap between an epitaxial source/drain and the field oxide is formed with a silicon dioxide-based gap filler in the gap. Metal silicide is formed on the exposed epitaxial source/drain region. A CESL is formed over the integrated circuit and a PMD layer is formed over the CESL. A contact is formed through the PMD layer and CESL to make an electrical connection to the metal silicide on the epitaxial source/drain region.
US09508594B2
A substrate bonding method is able to reliably bond substrates while avoiding a reduction in yield made worse by finer pitches. The substrate bonding method can include: forming an adhesive resin layer on a surface of a first substrate on which a pad has been formed; forming an opening on the adhesive resin layer above the pad; filling the opening with molten solder to form a pillar-shaped solder bump; and applying heat and pressure to the first substrate and a second substrate while a terminal formed on the second substrate is aligned with the solder bump.
US09508587B2
Embodiments of present invention provide a method of making well isolations. The method includes forming a hard-mask layer on top of said substrate; forming a first resist-mask on top of a first portion of the hard-mask layer and applying the first resist-mask in forming a first type of wells in a first region of the substrate; forming a second resist-mask on top of a second portion of the hard-mask layer and applying the second resist-mask in forming a second type of wells in a second region of the substrate; applying the first and second resist-masks in transforming the hard-mask layer into a hard-mask, the hard-mask having openings aligned to areas overlapped by the first and second regions of the substrate; etching at least the areas of the substrate in creating deep trenches that separate the first and second types of wells; and filling the deep trenches with insulating materials.
US09508576B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to improvements to single-substrate, multi-chamber processing platform architecture for minimizing fabrication facility floor space requirements. Prior art systems require significant floor space around all sides to allow for adequate installation and servicing. Embodiments of the present invention provide platforms that allow for servicing the chambers and supporting systems via a front and rear of the platform allowing multiple, side-by-side platform placement within a fabrication facility, while providing improved serviceability of the platform components.
US09508569B2
Disclosed is a substrate liquid processing apparatus including a substrate holding unit configured to hold a substrate; a processing liquid nozzle configured to supply a processing liquid to the substrate held by the substrate holding unit; a nozzle arm configured to hold the processing liquid nozzle; and an arm cleaning tank configured to immerse the entire surface of the nozzle arm in a cleaning liquid so as to clean the nozzle arm.
US09508560B1
A method that allows effective removal of a silicon-containing antireflective coating (SiARC) layer in a block mask after defining an unblock area in a sidewall image transfer (SIT) patterning process without causing a height loss of the SIT spacers is provided. The method includes first modifying the SiARC layer with a dry etch utilizing an etching gas comprising a nitrogen gas followed by treating the modified SiARC layer with a wet chemical etch utilizing an aqueous solution including dilute hydrofluoric acid and citric acid.
US09508556B1
A method for fabricating a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) is provided. The method includes steps as follows. A gate stack is formed over a substrate having a semiconductor fin. Recesses are formed in the semiconductor fin beside the gate stack. A pre-clean process is performed to remove native oxides on surfaces of the recesses. After the pre-clean process, a selectivity proximity push process is performed using a fluorine-containing gas and a first hydrogen gas to the recesses. Strained layers are formed in the recesses.
US09508547B1
Composition-matched curtain gas mixtures for edge uniformity modulation in large-volume ALD reactors
Disclosed are methods of performing film deposition. The methods may include volumetrically isolating a first process station from a second process station by flowing a curtain gas between them, and igniting first and second plasmas supported by first and second plasma feed gases, while flowing the curtain gas, to cause film deposition at the first and second process stations. The curtain gas and the first and second plasma feed gases may each include a high-breakdown voltage species that may be molecular oxygen. The high-breakdown voltage species may have a breakdown voltage of at least about 250 V for a pressure-distance (pd) value of 3.4 Torr-cm. The curtain gas may have a higher concentration of the high-breakdown voltage species than the first and second plasma feed gases. The high-breakdown voltage species may make up about 5-50% of the curtain gas by mole fraction. The high-breakdown voltage species may be molecular oxygen.
US09508544B2
This semiconductor device (100) includes a substrate (10) and a TFT which is provided on the substrate. The TFT includes a gate electrode (12), an oxide semiconductor layer (14) which faces the gate electrode, source and drain electrodes (16, 18) which are connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, and an insulating layer (22) which contacts at least partially with the source and drain electrodes. The insulating layer (22) includes a lower region (22b) which contacts at least partially with the source and drain electrodes and an upper region (22a) which is located over the lower region. The lower region (22b) has a higher hydrogen content than the upper region (22a).
US09508540B2
The present invention provides a method of generating ions from a sample, the method comprising the steps of (1) designating a plurality of sample target sites, and (2) for each of said plurality of sample target sites, generating ions from a plurality of locations associated with the sample target site, wherein said plurality of locations are selected automatically with reference to the said sample target site. Each of the plurality of sample target sites is associated with a discrete sample region, wherein the sample is part of a MALDI ion source and the plurality of discrete sample regions comprise regions of matrix, suitably formed by chemical inkjet printing. The plurality of locations can be at least 5 and preferably at least 10 locations, each of which can be selected randomly or in accordance with a predetermined pattern. Ions generated from the plurality of locations associated with each of the sample target sites are assigned only a single set of sample position coordinates, which coordinates correspond to those of the sample target site. This averaging technique leads to improved data reliability.
US09508528B2
A method for correcting a drift of an accelerating voltage includes measuring, after a position of a focus of a charged particle beam has been adjusted based on a first adjustment value and a predetermined time period has passed, a second adjustment value when the position of the focus of the charged particle beam is newly adjusted, calculating a deviation amount between the first adjustment value and the second adjustment value, calculating, using a correlation stored in a storage device, a correction value of an accelerating voltage to be applied to a beam source which emits the charged particle beam, where the correction value corresponds to the deviation amount, and correcting the accelerating voltage to be applied to the beam source, by using the correlation value.
US09508521B2
An ion beam device according to the present invention includes a gas field ion source (1) including an emitter tip (21) supported by an emitter base mount (64), a ionization chamber (15) including an extraction electrode (24) and being configured to surround the emitter tip (21), and a gas supply tube (25). A center axis line of the extraction electrode (24) overlaps or is parallel to a center axis line (14A) of the ion irradiation light system, and a center axis line (66) passing the emitter tip (21) and the emitter base mount (64) is inclinable with respect to a center axis line of the ionization chamber (15). Accordingly, an ion beam device including a gas field ion source capable of adjusting the direction of the emitter tip is provided.
US09508513B1
A coaxial RF switch optoelectronic indicator comprising a light-emitting diode (LED), a photo sensor, and a shutter assembly wherein the shutter assembly interacts with the soft-iron rocker in the switch and causes the optical path between the LED and photo-sensor to open or close, corresponding to the states (connected or disconnected) of an RF channel in the switch, providing an indicator means to the switch.
US09508507B2
Gas insulated electrical equipment includes: a metal enclosure having an insulating gas introduced therein; a conductor that is accommodated inside the metal enclosure and to which voltage is applied; and an insulating and supporting member insulating and supporting the conductor relative to the metal enclosure. The conductor is circumferentially covered with a dielectric film, and furthermore, a nonlinear resistance film provided on the dielectric film and having a nonlinear volume resistivity decreasing when the nonlinear resistance film is acted on by an electric field higher than a critical value.
US09508496B2
Provided is an internal switch-type salt meter in which an impact switching device operable by an impact applied into a main body is built in the main body so that it is unnecessary to separately waterproof the switching device. The salt meter includes a main body having the inside waterproofed against the outside, a sensor part disposed on an end of a side of the main body to detect salinity of an object to be measured, a display part disposed on a surface of a side of the main body to display a result measured by the sensor part, and a switching device built in the main body to generate a contact point by an impact with an external impact object, thereby operating the sensor part and the display part. The switching device may be built in the main body so that a separate waterproof process is not required.
US09508485B1
A signal isolator apparatus includes a first substrate for supporting input circuitry including a high frequency oscillator circuit for receiving an input signal, a second substrate for supporting output circuitry including a detector circuit for providing an output signal; and a third substrate having parallel conductive layers separated by insulation. The third substrate has an upper conductive shield formed in a second conductive layer and a lower conductive shield formed in a fifth conductive layer. A transformer is formed between the upper and lower conductive shields and includes a primary winding formed in a third conductive layer and a secondary winding formed in a fourth conductive layer. The oscillator circuit is connected to the primary winding and adapted to excite the primary winding at a first frequency in response to the input signal, and the detector circuit is connected to the secondary winding and adapted to selectively sense the first frequency and provide the output signal. The third substrate is arranged to form a bridge connection between the first and second substrates.
US09508483B2
An inductor device for a printed wiring board has an insulation layer having a first penetrating hole penetrating through the insulation layer, a magnetic core structure including a magnetic material filled in the first penetrating hole through the insulation layer such that the magnetic core structure including a first magnetic body layer formed in the first penetrating hole is formed through the insulation layer, and a conductor layer formed on the insulation layer and having an inductor pattern such that the inductor pattern is surrounding the circumference of the magnetic core structure.
US09508468B2
A noise suppression cable includes an electrical wire, a first magnetic material including a pair of first surfaces formed along an axis direction of the electrical wire and a convex portion projecting from the first surfaces, and a second magnetic material including a pair of second surfaces disposed on a periphery of the electrical wire, the pair of the second surfaces contacting the pair of the first surfaces such that a tubular shape is formed by the first and second magnetic materials. The first magnetic material and the second magnetic material are configured to generate a compression stress in the convex portion of the first magnetic material by receiving an external force so as to reduce a relative permeability of the convex portion.
US09508463B2
It is to provide an electrolyte material with which an increase in the water content can be suppressed even when the ion exchange capacity of a polymer having repeating units based on a monomer having a dioxolane ring is high; and a membrane/electrode assembly excellent in the power generation characteristics under low or no humidity conditions and under high humidity conditions.It is to use an electrolyte material, which comprises a polymer (H) having ion exchange groups converted from precursor groups in a polymer (F), and having an ion exchange capacity of at least 1.35 meq/g dry resin, the polymer (F) having repeating units (A) based on a perfluoromonomer having a precursor group of an ion exchange group and a dioxolane ring and repeating units (B) based on a perfluoromonomer having no precursor group and having a dioxolane ring, and having a TQ of at least 200° C., which is a temperature at which the melt volume rate becomes 100 mm3/sec when the polymer (F) is subjected to melt-extrusion under an extrusion pressure condition of 2.94 MPa from a nozzle having a length of 1 mm and an inner diameter of 1 mm.
US09508447B2
A non-volatile memory including a substrate, a floating gate transistor, a select transistor and a stress-releasing transistor. The floating gate transistor, the select transistor and the stress-releasing transistor are disposed on the substrate and coupled in series with each other. The stress-releasing transistor is located between the floating gate transistor and the select transistor.
US09508446B1
One aspect of the technology is a memory device comprising a memory array, a sense circuit, and temperature compensated bias circuitry. The memory array is electrically coupled between a bit line bias circuit and a common source line. The bit line bias circuit generates a temperature compensated sense current through the memory array. The temperature compensated bias circuitry controls the bit line bias circuit to generate the temperature compensated sense current through the memory array.
US09508443B2
A non-volatile memory device comprises a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. An array of non-volatile memory cells is located in the semiconductor substrate and arranged in a plurality of rows and columns. Each memory cell comprises a first region on a surface of the semiconductor substrate of a second conductivity type, and a second region on the surface of the semiconductor substrate of the second conductivity type. A channel region is between the first region and the second region. A word line overlies a first portion of the channel region and is insulated therefrom, and adjacent to the first region and having little or no overlap with the first region. A floating gate overlies a second portion of the channel region, is adjacent to the first portion, and is insulated therefrom and is adjacent to the second region. A coupling gate overlies the floating gate. A bit line is connected to the first region. During the operations of program, read, or erase, a negative voltage can be applied to the word lines and/or coupling gates of the selected or unselected memory cells.
US09508431B2
A device including a memory cell including a variable resistive memory element; a capacitor; a voltage generation circuit; and a switch circuit including a first switch and a second switch. The first switch is coupled between the voltage generation circuit and the capacitor without an intervention of the second switch. The second switch is coupled between the capacitor and the memory cell without an intervention of the first switch. The first switch is configured to take an on-state during a first period of time and an off-state during a second period of time following the first period of time and the second switch is configured to take an off-state during the first period of time and an on-state during the second period of time.
US09508428B2
A vertical type semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The vertical type semiconductor device includes a pillar structure having a stacking structure of a conductive layer and a data storage material and formed on a common source region, and a gate electrode formed to surround the data storage material of the pillar structure.
US09508425B2
A non-volatile memory device structure. The non-volatile memory device structure comprises a first electrode formed from a first metal material, a resistive switching element overlying the first electrode. The resistive switching element comprises a metal oxide material characterized by one or more oxygen deficient sites. The device includes a second electrode overlying the resistive switching layer, the second electrode being formed from a second metal material. The second electrode is made from a noble metal. The one or more oxygen deficient sites are caused to migrate from one of the first electrode or the second electrode towards the other electrode upon a voltage applied to the first electrode or the second electrode. The device can have a continuous change in resistance upon applying a continuous voltage ramp, suitable for an analog device. Alternatively, the device can have a sharp change in resistance upon applying the continuous voltage ramp, suitable for a digital device.
US09508423B2
A read method of a nonvolatile memory device includes determining whether a selected word line comprises LSB (least significant bit) page only programmed memory cells by applying a first read voltage to the selected word line. In the case that the selected word line comprises LSB (least significant bit) page only programmed memory cells, counting the number of off-cells by applying the first read voltage to the selected word line. And in a read operation, changing a select read voltage being applied to the selected word line according to the number of off-cells.
US09508395B2
The present invention discloses a three-dimensional one-time-programmable memory (3D-OTP) comprising an off-die read/write-voltage generator (VR/VW-generator). It comprises at least a 3D-array die and at least a peripheral-circuit die. At least a VR/VW-generator of the 3D-OTP arrays is located on the peripheral-circuit die instead of the 3D-array die. The VR/VW-generator generates at least a read voltage and/or a write voltage different from a supply voltage.
US09508389B2
Described herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for embedding personal video recorder functions at the picture level. In one embodiment, there is presented a computer readable medium for storing a data structure. The data structure comprises a picture header and at least one command following the picture header.
US09508387B2
Video content is a time varying presentation of scenes or video frames. Each frame can contain a number of scene elements such as actors, foreground items, background items, or other items. A person enjoying video content can select a scene element by specifying a screen coordinate while the video content plays. Frame specification data identifies the specific frame or scene being displayed when the coordinate is selected. The coordinate in combination with the frame specification data is sufficient to identify the scene element that the person has chosen, information about the scene element can then be presented to the person. An annotation database can relate the scene elements to the frame specification data and coordinates.
US09508385B2
Embodiments disclosed herein enable a user to generate an audio-visual project. Certain embodiments enable a user to use one of a plurality of predefined templates to generate a project easily and quickly. Other embodiments enable a user to generate a custom project that gives more control to the user, compared to if the user selected one of the predefined templates. Each project includes one or more segments, which may be specified by a user directly, or may be specified by the template selected by the user. An effect is applied to each segment, wherein the effect specifies how many video and audio slots are included in the segment, if any, and can specify one or more other properties of the segment. Projects generated using embodiments disclosed herein can be saved and shared with other users.
US09508384B2
Apparatus for generation of playable media from structured data, comprises a structured data reading unit for reading in of content of a first structure, a transformation unit for transforming said content into a second structure, said transformation comprising incorporating media play instructions, and a rendering unit for rendering content from the second structure using said media play instructions to generate playable media from the content.
US09508379B2
A recording device of the present disclosure includes a light source, an objective lens, a beam splitter, an optical element, a detector and an operation circuit. The optical element divides a light beam into a first main region, a second main region, a first main end region, a second main end region, a first sub-region, and a second sub-region. The operation circuit generates a main signal in which a first main end region signal is multiplied by a coefficient a and added to the first main region signal, and a second main signal in which a second main end region signal is multiplied by the coefficient α and added to the second main region signal.
US09508375B2
Methods and apparatus for forming substrates having magnetically patterned surfaces is provided. A magnetic layer comprising one or more materials having magnetic properties is formed on the substrate. The magnetic layer is subjected to a patterning process in which selected portions of the surface of the magnetic layer are altered such that the altered portions have different magnetic properties from the non-altered portions without changing the topography of the substrate. A protective layer and a lubricant layer are deposited over the patterned magnetic layer. The patterning is accomplished through a number of alternative processes that expose substrates to energy of varying forms.
US09508369B2
A maximum write duration is determined for first and second heat-assisted write transducers of a data storage device. Exceeding the duration results in thermal degradation of the first and second write transducers. A request to write data to a heat-assisted recording medium is received. In response to a time to fulfill the request exceeding the maximum write duration, the data is divided into portions such that a respective writing of each of the portions does not exceed the maximum write duration. Writing successive ones of the portions to the heat-assisted recording medium involves alternating between the first and second write transducers.
US09508367B1
In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a sensor having an active tunnel magnetoresistive region, magnetic shields flanking the tunnel magnetoresistive region, and spacers between the active tunnel magnetoresistive region and the magnetic shields. The active tunnel magnetoresistive region includes a free layer, a tunnel barrier layer and a reference layer. At least one of the spacers includes an electrically conductive ceramic layer. The presence of the electrically conductive ceramic layer enables current-perpendicular-to-plane operation, while enhancing wear resistance and resistance to deformities of the thin films.
US09508366B2
An apparatus disclosed herein includes a sensor with a free layer having cross-track easy axis anisotropy.
US09508354B2
A communications system distributes code word pairs within the audio of a television or radio program or the like. Each pair of code words includes an ID code word that is the same for a given program and a synchronization code word that is unique within the program. A portable user device is able to synchronize itself to the program using the embedded synchronization code words.
US09508346B2
Systems and methods of automated adaptation of a language model for transcription of audio data include obtaining audio data. The audio data is transcribed with a language model to produce a plurality of audio file transcriptions. A quality of the plurality of audio file transcriptions is evaluated. At least one best transcription from a plurality of audio file transcriptions is selected based upon the evaluated quality. Statistics are calculated from the selected at least one best transcription from the plurality of audio file transcriptions. The language model is modified from the calculated statistics.
US09508311B2
A display apparatus, a connectable external peripheral device and a method of displaying an image are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display unit; an image processor which first processes an image signal according to a preset first image processing operation, and secondly processes the first processed image signal processed according to the first image processing operation, and outputs the processed image signal to the display unit. The display apparatus further includes a peripheral device connector, to which an external peripheral device is connected that processes the image signal processed by the first image processing operation. The second image processing operation is performed in the external peripheral device. The image processor transmitting to the external peripheral device the first processed image signal in response to the external peripheral device being connected to the peripheral device connector.
US09508308B1
The patent application relates to a method of controlling a display device including display elements arranged in a matrix with n rows of display elements. The method includes: driving a first row of display elements, with a first output of a driving system being connected to the first row and disconnected from at least one further row of display elements.
US09508297B2
The present invention provides a liquid-crystal-driving method of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential difference between a pair of electrodes provided for one of upper and lower substrates, wherein a DC image sticking and a flicker are sufficiently reduced, and a liquid crystal display device driven by using the liquid-crystal-driving method. The present invention relates to a method of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential difference between a pair of electrodes provided for one of upper and lower substrates. In the liquid-crystal-driving method, a driving operation of driving liquid crystal by causing a potential between a pair of electrodes is executed. In the driving operation, the absolute value of a second offset voltage is larger than that of a first offset voltage.
US09508296B2
The present invention provides a driving method of a pixel array, wherein the driving method includes: step 1, obtaining a theoretical brightness value of each sub-pixel for an image to be displayed; step 2, calculating an actual brightness value of each sub-pixel, the actual brightness value of a sub-pixel to be calculated is a sum of a part of the theoretical brightness value of the sub-pixel to be calculated and a part of the theoretical brightness values of a plurality of auxiliary sub-pixels corresponding to the sub-pixel to be calculated; and step 3, outputting a signal to each sub-pixel so that the brightness value of each sub-pixel reaches the actual brightness value thereof which is obtained in the step 2. The present invention further provides a driving module of a pixel array and a display device.
US09508295B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first pixel electrode disposed on a first color pixel of red, a second pixel electrode disposed on a second color pixel of green, a third pixel electrode disposed on a third color pixel of blue, and a fourth pixel electrode disposed on a fourth color pixel of white, a second substrate including a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a top voltage applied to the fourth color pixel to correspond to a maximum gradation value is set to be less than a top voltage applied to each of the first color pixel and the second color pixel to correspond to respective maximum gradation values.
US09508292B2
The present invention provides a pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit is used for driving a pixel array, wherein each pixel in the pixel array comprises four sub-pixels with different colors, and wherein the pixel driving circuit comprises: at least one first sub-pixel driving chip and at least one second sub-pixel driving chip, wherein the at least one first sub-pixel driving chip each is connected to a part of sub-pixels corresponding thereto in corresponding pixels to drive them, and the at least one second sub-pixel driving chip each is connected to the other part of sub-pixels corresponding thereto in the corresponding pixels to drive them. In the invention, noise interference can be avoided, and the display quality is improved; the cost is reduced; signal transmitting efficiency is increased and the EMI characteristic of products is improved.
US09508291B2
An image display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image display panel; a backlight device; a first optical element located between the image display panel and the backlight device and configured to deflect a light incident thereon; a second optical element located between the first optical element and the image display panel and configured to change a deflection angle of emitted light according to a voltage applied thereto; a plurality of first lenses located between the first optical element and the backlight device; a plurality of second lenses located between the second optical element and the image display panel; a position detection section configured to detect a viewing position of a viewer; and a control section configured to control the voltage applied to the second optical element, according to the detected viewing position. The first lenses and the second lenses constitute an afocal optical system.
US09508289B2
A display device includes pixel circuits with light emitting devices coupled to a first voltage and a second voltage; a signal controller configured to: generate output image data by gamma converting and by decreasing input image data of a frame according to a gamma curve; and generate a control signal to display an image on the panel according to the generated output image data; a voltage difference setting unit configured to detect a maximum value in the output image data, and configured to calculate a difference value between the first voltage and the second voltage so that a driving current corresponding to the maximum value is generated; and a power supply unit configured to generate and apply the first and second voltages to the panel, the generated first and second voltages corresponding to the calculated difference value, wherein the gamma curve comprises one or more inflection points.
US09508284B2
A method for controlling a display device includes adjusting the luminance value of input data by a first method when the luminance value is greater than or equal to a predetermined number of nits, and adjusting the luminance value by a second method when the luminance value is less than the predetermined number of nits. The first method reduces the luminance value by a first predetermined percentage. The second method adjusts the luminance value to a first value corresponding to a predetermined luminance value set for the predetermined number of nits, and then reduces the first value by a second predetermined percentage different from the first predetermined percentage. The predetermined number of nits may be 2 nits or another number of nits.
US09508279B2
A conversion apparatus, includes: a target value setting unit that sets a target value for color reproduction at the time when output image data is displayed on a display device, the target value is set by using a first target value set based on a display characteristic of the display device and a second target value set by designating targets of hue and saturation with respect to a gray image; a conversion relation creation unit that creates a conversion relation based on the set target value; and an output image creation unit that performs color conversion processing on an input image data using the conversion relation to creates the output image data, in which the second target value is set to suppress variation of color representation.
US09508278B2
Various systems and methods for presenting contents on a persistent display are described herein. A system for controlling an electronic display comprises a persistent display; a trigger module to detect a triggering event; a configuration module to access a dead screen configuration in response to the triggering event, the dead screen configuration specifying content to display on the persistent display of the system after the system is powered down; and an output module to write the specified content to the persistent display as an image.
US09508277B2
A display device includes a timing control circuit, a first data driving circuit, and a second data driving circuit. The first data driving circuit receives the first clock embedded training data from the timing control circuit, performs a first clock training to adjust a work frequency of the data driving circuit to be equal to the frequency of a first clock signal, and receives the first clock embedded image data from the timing control circuit. The second data driving circuit receives a second clock embedded training data from the timing control circuit, performs a second clock training to adjust a work frequency of the data driving circuit to be equal to the frequency of a second clock signal, and receives the second clock embedded image data from the timing control circuit. The frequency of the first clock signal is different from that of the second clock signal.
US09508274B2
Thin film transistor substrate, method of inspecting the same, and display device including the same
A thin film transistor substrate, includes: pixels disposed in a display area of the thin film transistor substrate and connected to gate lines and data lines; gate pad parts connected to first ends of the gate lines; first test transistors each being connected to a second end of a corresponding gate line of the gate lines; data pad parts connected to first ends of the data lines; and second test transistors each being connected to a second end of a corresponding data line of the data lines. The gate pad parts, the data pad parts, the first test transistors, and the second test transistors are disposed in a non-display area of the thin film transistor substrate. The first test transistors are configured to be switched to receive a first inspection signal and the second test transistors are configured to be switched to receive a second inspection signal.
US09508271B2
The present invention teaches a tamper-proof electronic bolt seal which contains a bolt assembly and a seal body. The gist of the present invention lies in the bolt assembly which contains a casing, and a circuit board elastically suspended inside the casing. When a burglar grinds a bolt head of the casing, an internal circuit of the electronic bolt seal is automatically disrupted so that the tampering of the electronic bolt seal can be detected.
US09508268B2
The invention describes a computer-based system that asks (101) a patient to pronounce a word displayed on a monitor, automatically assesses (104, 105) the speech quality, and uses suitable means to feed back (106) any improvement or deterioration of speech quality.
US09508267B2
The present disclosure relates to a configurable simulator with testing capabilities, comprising a simulation controller and a plurality of configurable modular cards. The simulation controller determines configuration parameters of the cards and exchanges configuration messages with the cards. The simulation controller also receives and processes test notifications from the cards. Each card comprises a configurable input/output unit comprising a plurality of configurable inputs and outputs, and a power supply comprising a plurality of configurable power supply circuits. The input/output unit exchanges configuration messages with the simulation controller and sends the test notification. Each card further comprises a processor for configuring the configurable input/output unit, and the power supply. The processor also executes a simulation code to implement a functionality of the simulator. The processor further tests the input/output unit and the power supply, monitors the execution of the simulation code, and generates the test notification based on test results.
US09508264B2
A system and method for management of airspace for unmanned aircraft is disclosed. The system and method comprises administration of the airspace including designation of flyways and zones with reference to features in the region. The system and method comprises administration of aircraft including registration of aircraft and mission. A monitoring system tracks conditions and aircraft traffic in the airspace. Aircraft may be configured to transact with the management system including to obtain rights/priority by license and to operate in the airspace under direction of the system. The system and aircraft may be configured for dynamic transactions (e.g. licensing/routing). The system will set rates for licenses and use/access to the airspace and aircraft will be billed/pay for use/access of the airspace at rates using data from data sources.
US09508263B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a digital flight path within complex mission boundaries. In particular, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods generate flight legs that traverse a target site within mission boundaries. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that utilize linking algorithms to connect the generated flight legs into a flight path. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that generate a mission plan based on the flight path. In one or more embodiments, the generated mission plan enables a UAV to traverse a flight area within mission boundaries and capture aerial images with regard to the target site.
US09508250B2
Systems and techniques are provided for automatic security system mode selection. A set of signals may be received from sensors distributed in an environment with a security system. The security system may be in a first mode. An occupancy model may be received. An occupancy estimate may be generated for the environment based on the set of signals from the sensors and the occupancy model. Mode rules may be received. The mode rules associate occupancy estimates with modes of the security system. A second mode for the security system may be determined based on the occupancy estimate and mode rules. The second mode may be different from the first mode. The mode of the security system may be automatically changed from the first mode to the second mode.
US09508247B2
Systems and methods of security are provided, including at least one of a plurality of sensors to detect a location of at least one user, and generate detection data according to the detected location of the at least one user. A processor may be communicatively coupled to the at least one of the plurality of sensors to receive the detection data and to determine whether the at least one user is occupying a building according to the detection data. An alarm device, communicatively coupled to the processor, can be armed or disarmed by the processor according to the determination as to whether the at least one user is occupying the building.
US09508231B2
An automated teller machine includes: a customer interface that receives operation relating to banknotes; a pay-in/pay-out port section that takes in banknotes from the outside and dispenses banknotes to the outside; a classification section that classifies the banknotes; a front conveyance section that conveys the banknotes between the pay-in/pay-out port section and the classification section; banknote storage boxes that are provided below the classification section, and that store normal banknotes determined to be normal by the classification section from out of the banknotes inserted into the pay-in/pay-out port section; a sorting conveyance section that is provided below the classification section, that sorts the normal banknotes into the banknote storage boxes according to denomination, and that retains a pay-in reject banknote determined to be unsuitable for pay-in by the classification section; and a rear conveyance section that conveys the banknotes between the classification section and the sorting conveyance section.
US09508227B1
A method of generating and displaying a game of chance on an electronic device to one or more players, wherein each player places a wager on a primary hand of cards dealt from a deck of cards containing at least one Multi-Draw Bonus Card. The player may place an additional wager on one or more Multi-Draw Bonus cards (bonus card) provided on the deal and/or the draw. The bonus card provides for a multiplier and/or n additional cards to be dealt in place of the bonus card. The cards for each band are dealt from a deck of cards using a random number generator.
US09508221B2
A controller for a gaming machine, the controller adapted to receive data from a bill acceptor that may represent bill data or ticket data, the controller arranged to process the data and to output bill data to a game controller, and output ticket data to a ticket processing mechanism.
US09508213B2
Systems, methods and computer program products associated with wirelessly (e.g., RF) readable gaming chips are disclosed.
US09508207B2
The system provides a method and apparatus for providing controlled access to premises. The system in one embodiment uses a reader/scanner associated with a controlled entrance that can receive credentials manually or via scanning or some other form of electronic communication. In one embodiment, the system uses NFC (Near Field Communication) from a mobile device to determine if access should be granted. The system contemplates a number of different tiers of users whose right of access to a location depends on the tier in which the user resides. For one time visitors, the system contemplates transmitting an access credential that can be used by a specific user for a limited time period. In some cases, the access credential is tied to a particular device.
US09508205B1
Presented are a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for enrollment. The method includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE), one of a plurality of predetermined user identifiers, the UE having access to the plurality of predetermined user identifiers stored in a memory, and creating a biometric template corresponding to at least one biometric scan of the user. The method further includes storing the created biometric template, wherein the created biometric template is associated with the one of the plurality of user identifiers.
US09508201B2
Approaches are provided for identifying the origin of a vehicular impact and selectively exchanging data pertaining to the impact. An approach includes determining whether an impact to a vehicle exceeds a predetermined threshold. The approach further includes when the impact exceeds the predetermined threshold, sending a signal that includes impact information and identifier information stored in a persistent storage device. The approach further includes receiving signals from one or more other vehicles within a predetermined proximity of the vehicle. The approach further includes comparing impact information from the signals to the impact information stored in the persistent storage device. The approach further includes when the impact information from the signals matches the impact information stored in the persistent storage device within a tolerance threshold, storing the impact information and identifier information from the signals in the persistent storage device.
US09508198B1
Meters and meter covers comprising: a removable cover housing configured to accommodate the upper portion of the internal components of an existing meter, the cover housing engageable with the housing base of the existing meter to cover and enclose the internal components of the existing meter; a sensor affixed to the cover housing, the sensor configured to collect environmental information pertaining to the local external environment of the existing meter; a wireless radio affixed to the cover housing, the wireless radio configured to transmit the environmental information to the existing meter or to a remote server in communication with the existing meter; and a power unit affixed to the cover housing, the power unit supplying power to the sensor and the wireless radio.
US09508197B2
Technology is disclosed for automatically generating a facial avatar resembling a user in a defined art style. One or more processors generate a user 3D head model for the user based on captured 3D image data from a communicatively coupled 3D image capture device. A set of user transferable head features from the user 3D head model are automatically represented by the one or more processors in the facial avatar in accordance with rules governing transferable user 3D head features. In some embodiments, a base or reference head model of the avatar is remapped to include the set of user head features. In other embodiments, an avatar head shape model is selected based on the user 3D head model, and the transferable user 3D head features are represented in the avatar head shape model.
US09508195B2
Methods for managing content within an interactive augmented reality environment are described. An augmented reality environment may be provided to an end user of a head-mounted display device (HMD) in which content (e.g., webpages) may be displayed to the end user using one or more curved slates that are positioned on a virtual cylinder that appears body-locked to the end user. The virtual cylinder may be located around the end user with the end user positioned in the middle of the virtual cylinder such that the one or more curved slates appear to be displayed at the same distance from the end user. The position and size of each of the one or more curved slates may be controlled by the end user using head gestures and a virtual pointer projected onto the virtual cylinder.
US09508189B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for creating a 3D image of vehicle surroundings. The method according to the present invention includes the steps of: mapping images captured by a plurality of cameras installed in a vehicle to a virtual plane defined by a 3-dimensional space model having a container shape with a flat bottom surface and a top surface which has an increasing radius; and creating a view image having a viewpoint of a virtual camera by using the image mapped to the virtual plane. According to the present invention, it is advantageous that an image of vehicle surroundings including surrounding obstacles can be expressed naturally and three-dimensionally. It is also advantageous that an optimal image of vehicle surroundings can be provided by changing the virtual viewpoint according to a traveling state of the vehicle. There is also the advantage that a user can conveniently adjust the viewpoint of the virtual camera.
US09508188B2
View parameter establishing means are arranged for establishing a first view parameter value based on a first object parameter value. View visualization means are arranged for visualizing the view of the image in accordance with the first view parameter value. Interaction means are arranged for enabling a user to indicate a point in the view. Object parameter updating means are arranged for updating the object parameter based on the point to obtain a second object parameter value. The view parameter establishing means is arranged for updating the view parameter based on the second object parameter value to obtain a second view parameter value. The view visualization means is arranged for sequentially visualizing a view of the image in accordance with an intermediate view parameter value between the first view and the second view parameter values, and a view of the image in accordance with the second view parameter value.
US09508164B2
This invention relates to a high resolution and low dosage tomographic imaging in three dimensions, and more particularly, to a fully analytical fast iterative statistical algorithm for image reconstruction from projections obtained in a spiral cone-beam x-ray scanner is described. The presented method allows to improve the resolution of the reconstructed images and/or to decrease the x-ray intensity while maintaining the quality of the obtained CT images, because the signals obtained are adapted to the specific statistics for this imaging technique. The location of pixels in a reconstructed image and the location of detectors in a detector array in this new approach are described. The topology of pixels and detectors presented here avoids an inconsistency in the distribution of the coefficients assigned to the pixels in the image, which appears in the formulation of the analytical iterative statistical reconstruction problem.
US09508159B2
Disclosed is a device for constructing image database, including: an image input unit for receiving an image; and a building identification unit configured to map the image to a three-dimensional map based on photographing information of the image, to project direction vectors toward respective locations of the image that are mapped to the three-dimensional map from a photographing position of the image, and to distinguish buildings from the image based on whether the respective direction vectors collide or not.
US09508155B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for determining spatial location for one or more facial features. A method computes features for an initial frame. The computed features of the initial frame generate a feature image. A method also determines whether a translation is verified between the initial frame and an intermediate frame, wherein a translation is verified in an instance in which a distance used to verify the translation between the initial frame and the intermediate frame is within a predetermined threshold level. A method also includes a face search, using a portion of the feature image, for one or more facial features, wherein the portion of the feature image searched is a fraction of the total number of frames analyzed in a feature computation cycle. A method also determines a spatial location for the one or more facial features detected in the intermediate frame.
US09508154B2
A medical imaging apparatus and a method of operating the same are provided. The method includes acquiring three-dimensional (3D) volume data about an object, generating a 3D image based on the 3D volume data, extracting a muscle tissue figure corresponding to a muscle tissue shape of the object by grouping voxels included in the 3D image, analyzing a motion of the object based on the extracted muscle tissue figure, and displaying the extracted muscle tissue figure and a result of the analysis.
US09508153B2
A distance measurement apparatus that calculates distance information based on first and second images, includes a first calculation unit that calculates, for each pixel to which distance calculation is performed, distance information corresponding to the pixel on the basis of a local area of a number of local areas in the first image, including the pixel, and a local area of a number of local areas in the second image, corresponding to the local area in the first image; a second calculation unit that calculates a non-similarity value between the local area in the first image and the local area in the second image; a determination unit that determines whether the non-similarity value is greater than a threshold; and a third calculation unit that calculates a ratio of the number of local areas for which the non-similarity value is determined to be greater than the threshold in a predetermined area to the number of local areas in the predetermined area.
US09508146B2
One or more systems, methods, routines and/or techniques for automated frame of reference calibration for augmented reality are described. One or more systems, methods, routines and/or techniques may allow for calibration of an Augmented Reality (AR) system, for example, by automatically calibrating the frames of reference of virtual objects and/or a camera. One example calibration routine and/or technique may determine and/or calculate a mapping or transform from a frame of reference of a virtual object (e.g., a CAD model) to a coordinate frame associated with the tracking system. Another example calibration routine and/or technique may determine and/or calculate a mapping or transform from a camera lens frame of reference to a frame of reference of the whole camera as determined by a tracking system. These routines and/or techniques may calibrate an AR system to provide rapid, precise alignment between virtual content and a live camera view of a real scene.
US09508144B2
A data processing method for determining data which are referred to as atlas data and comprise information on a description of an image of a general anatomical structure, wherein this image is referred to as the atlas image, the method comprising the following steps performed by a computer: acquiring patient data which comprise a description of a set of images of an anatomical structure of a set of patients, wherein the images are referred to as patient images and each patient image is associated with a parameter set which comprises one or more parameters which obtain when the patient images are generated, wherein the parameters influence representations of anatomical elements as expressed by image values in the patient images; acquiring model data which comprise information on a description of an image of a model of an anatomical structure of a (single or average or generic) patient which is referred to as the model image and is associated with the parameter set; determining matching transformations which are referred to as PM transformations and which are constituted to respectively match the set of patient images of the set of patients to the model image by matching images associated with the same parameter set; determining an inverse average transformation by applying an inverting and averaging operation to the determined PM transformations; and a) determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the model data; or b) respectively applying the determined PM transformations to the respective patient images in order to determine matched patient images, averaging the matched patient images in order to determine an average matched patient image, and determining the atlas data by applying the determined inverse average transformation to the average matched patient image.
US09508140B2
A method and system are proposed to obtain quantitative data about the shape of a biological structure, and especially a heart ventricle. A set of three-dimensional input meshes are generated from MRI data. They represent the shape of a ventricle at successive times. The input meshes are used to generate a set of three-dimensional morphed meshes which have the same number of vertices as each other, and have respective shapes which are the shapes of corresponding ones of the input meshes. Then, for each of the times, shape analysis is performed to obtain a curvedness value at each of a plurality of corresponding locations in the morphed meshes. The curvedness value may be used to obtain a curvedness rate at each of the locations, indicative of the rate of change of curvedness with time at each of the locations.
US09508138B2
A method for detecting photolithographic hotspots is disclosed. After receiving layout data, an aerial image simulation is conducted to extract aerial image intensity indices. Based on the combination of one or more aerial image intensity indices, various aerial image detectors are generated. The value of aerial image detectors is verified to determine the position and type of the photolithographic hotspots.
US09508133B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating an image result based on availability of a network resource. In use, a request is received for one or more image operations. Additionally, an availability of a network resource is identified. Next, if the network resource is not available, a result is generated using a subset of the one or more image operations. Further, if the network resource is available, a result is generated using each of the one or more image operations. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.
US09508124B2
A method of correcting an infrared image including a plurality of pixels arranged in an input image array, a first pixel in the plurality of pixels having a first pixel value and one or more neighbor pixel with one or more neighbor pixel values. The first pixel and the one or more neighbor pixels are associated with an object in the image. The method includes providing a correction array having a plurality of correction pixel values, generating a corrected image array by adding the first pixel value to a correction pixel value in the correction array, and detecting edges in the corrected image array. The method also includes masking the detected edges in the corrected image array, updating the correction array, for each correction pixel value in the correction array and providing an output image array based on the correction array and the input image array.
US09508121B2
A computer implemented method of producing output pixels for a graphics system includes the steps of receiving one or more input pixels from the graphics system; performing rendering operations on the one or more pixels, wherein the rendering including the steps of: selecting one or more pixels of interest the resolution of which are to be increased; defining a sampling grid or a sampling orientation; multi sampling the one or more pixels of interest having a first resolution and multiple sampling points; collecting information from each sampled point; storing information from each sampled point as a virtual pixel; defining one or more pixels the resolution of which are one of to remain the same as received from the graphics system or the resolution of which are to be reduced; and rendering pixels of interest in a higher resolution than the their first resolution by rendering each virtual pixel into a physical pixel in a displayable frame or offscreen buffer.
US09508118B2
The method of the present disclosure includes: acquiring a pair of operation control points including an operation start point and an operation end point; calculating a vector from the operation start point to the operation end point; determining an image deforming area, where the image deforming area consists of a contracted sub-area and a stretched sub-area; determining a pixel step value of each pixel in the image deforming area, where a pixel step value of a pixel in the contracted sub-area is greater than a preset step value threshold, and a pixel step value of a pixel in the stretched sub-area is less than the step value threshold; generating an offset parameter relative to the image according to a vector direction of the vector and the pixel step value of the pixel; and performing interpolation calculation on the offset parameter, to obtain a stretched image.
US09508116B2
A method for deconvolution of digital images includes obtaining a degraded image from a digital sensor, a processor accepting output from the digital sensor and recognizing a distorted element within the image. The distorted element is compared with a true shape of the element to produce a degrading function. The degrading function is deconvolved from at least a portion of the image to improve image quality of the image. A method of indirectly decoding a barcode includes obtaining an image of a barcode using an optical sensor in a mobile computing device, the image comprising barcode marks and a textual character. The textual character is optically recognized and an image degrading characteristic is identified from the textual character. Compensating for the image degrading characteristic renders previously undecodable barcode marks decodable. A system for deconvolution of digital images is also included.
US09508115B2
An imaging system and use thereof for large-area monitoring with very high temporal resolution are provided. In one aspect, an imaging system includes a camera equipped with curved optics having a field of view of from about 0.01 miles to about 1.5 miles; and interchangeable light filters positioned in front of the camera configured to change one or more of an intensity and an amplitude of light captured by the imaging system. The curved optics may include a hemispherical mirror configured to reflect an image of objects in front of the mirror, and the camera may be positioned facing a reflective surface of the hemispherical mirror so as to capture the image reflected in the hemispherical mirror. Alternatively, the curved optics may include a fisheye lens mounted to the camera. An imaging network of the present imaging systems and a method for use thereof for thermal monitoring are also provided.
US09508100B2
There is discloses an on-line method of analysing financial accounting data, a server and a computer program. Certain embodiments of the method comprise receiving at a server uploaded financial accounting data from a client computer which includes a set of accounts A organized into account groups G. The financial accounting data is mapped to an accounting ontology stored at the server comprising at least a pre-defined set of primary category tags C and a pre-defined set of base level tags B each associated with a primary category tag C. The accounts are mapped according to mapping account groups G to primary category tags C and mapping accounts A to base level tags B, wherein each base level tag B has an associated set of criteria K. The mapped data is then analysed at the server. The results may be authorized to be shared with interested third parties.
US09508094B2
Providing prioritization of user online access to an online commerce site. Third party applications using API function calls to access an online commerce site are restricted to specific services by an access rule. An access rule defines which API server on the online commerce site a specific third party application may access when using a specific API function call. In this way, the operator of the online commerce site may prioritize server access per service level agreements based on a specific third party application and API function call.
US09508082B1
A business monitoring system is described herein that brings together the previously separate worlds of social media and offline secret shopper and similar programs. With the business monitoring system, owners of brands are able to monitor the local voice of the customer to detect local and regional trends in sentiment and activity, build benchmarks and goals for local storefronts, evaluate in-store operations and customer service trends, and measure the local impact of marketing and advertising initiatives. The system collects and analyzes signals from online sources, producing reports, analytics, benchmarks, and alerts regarding offline activity at the local/store-front level. The system normalizes the signals from various sources, analyzes the signals at the individual location level, aggregates the data across various dimensions, builds benchmarks for comparison, and fires triggers notifying appropriate people upon detecting a meaningful variance. Thus, the system provides a rich and timely set of information to business decision makers.
US09508077B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a podcast file that has inserted content that is distinct from the content of the podcast. A remote server provides a web page to a subscriber computing device via a network, and a subscriber computing device transmits a podcast file to the remote server via the network. The remote server inserts content into the podcast file and provides the podcast file along with the inserted content for access from the web page. The remote server transmits the podcast file along with the inserted content responsive to requests from the subscriber computing devices. The subscriber computing devices can process and play the podcast content along with the inserted content from the remote server.
US09508056B2
Embodiments provide electronic note-taking and application features and functionality, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-based method can be configured to provide note-taking features, including using blank notes as focus placeholders and resurfacing triggers. Other embodiments are included.
US09508053B2
A computer-implemented method for processing loading operation data to estimate one or more delivery events is described. The loading operation data comprises payload records, each representing a delivery event. The method comprises, for a selected payload record, operating a processing unit to determine whether a delivery weight in respect of the selected payload record is likely to reflect a single delivery event. If the delivery weight is unlikely to reflect a single delivery event the method further comprises generating a synthetic payload record representing an estimated delivery event and comprising synthetic weight and timing values.
US09508051B2
In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for configuring business development software for a modeled business environment including simulating one or more business related scenarios for managing situational events encountered with the modeled business environment using scenario input data to thereby generate data related to simulation results, and applying the data related to the simulation results to the modeled business environment to refine the modeled business environment by reconfiguring the business development software for the refined modeled business environment based on the data related to the simulation results provided by simulating the one or more business related scenarios with the scenario input data for the modeled business environment.
US09508047B2
A rework system for a vehicle having an inconsistency on a component of the vehicle. A rework assessor is configured to examine a rework parameter array to ascertain whether a rework procedure is to be performed. The rework parameter array defines at least volumetric dimensions of the component, a type of the inconsistency, and location coordinates of the inconsistency with respect to the component or the vehicle. A rework interrogator is in communication with the rework assessor. The rework interrogator is configured to, when a rework is to be performed, identify a candidate for addressing the inconsistency. The candidate selected from the group that includes: a candidate part, a candidate rework procedure, and both the candidate part and the candidate rework procedure.
US09508039B2
Deployment pattern matching is implemented by accessing a target computing environment model that captures environment modeling parameters relating to resources and resource-resource relationships of a corresponding computing environment and expressing the target computing environment model as a model graph defined by target resource elements and resource-to-resource relationship links. Deployment pattern matching is further implemented by accessing a realization pattern that captures deployment parameters relating to resources and resource-resource relationships of a deployment of interest and expressing the realization pattern as a pattern graph defined by conceptual resource elements and constraints arranged by resource-to-resource relationship links and constraint links. The realization pattern is then evaluated against the target computing environment model by executing at least one pattern matching algorithm that attempts to match the pattern graph to the model graph and information corresponding to results of the evaluation are conveyed.
US09508035B2
In accordance with various embodiments, a smart card including one or more components to be supplied and a current source, which is configured to provide a supply current with a predefined current intensity to the one or more components to be supplied, is described.
US09508021B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to electronic image object or logo recognition.
US09508019B2
An object recognition system is applicable to practical use, and utilizes image information besides speech information to improve recognition accuracy. The object recognition system comprises a speech recognition unit to determine candidates for a result of speech recognition on input speech and their likelihoods, and an image model generation unit to generate image models of a predetermined number of the candidates having the highest likelihoods. The system further comprises an image likelihood calculation unit to calculate image likelihoods of input images based on the image models, and an object recognition unit to perform object recognition using the image likelihoods. At the time of generating the image model of the candidate, the image model generation unit first searches an image model database, and, when the image model of the candidate is not found in the database, the image model generation unit generates said image model from image information on the web.
US09508018B2
An object detection system and a method of detecting an object in an image are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for detecting the object includes computing one or more feature planes of one or more types for each image pixel of the image. A plurality of cells is defined in the image, where each cell includes first through nth number of pixels, and starting locations of each cell in the image in horizontal and vertical directions are integral multiples of predefined horizontal and vertical step sizes, respectively. One or more feature plane summations of one or more types are computed for each cell. A feature vector is determined for an image portion of the image based on a set of feature plane summations, and the feature vector is compared with a corresponding object classifier to detect a presence of the corresponding object in the image portion of the image.
US09508014B2
A vision system of a vehicle includes a plurality of cameras disposed at the vehicle and having respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle. An image processing system is operable to process image data captured by the cameras. Responsive to processing of captured image data, the vision system is operable to generate a composite image derived from image data captured by at least two cameras of the plurality of cameras. One of the plurality of cameras functions as a master camera and the vision system, responsive to processing image data captured by the master camera, determines operating parameters for the master camera. The determined operating parameters for the master camera are used by the other cameras of the plurality of cameras.
US09508010B2
An apparatus for video to text conversion using video analysis, which analyzes at least one object included in video data input from a video acquisition device and provides motion information and attribution information of the object in the form of a sentence or word arrangement according to patterns. The apparatus includes an analysis unit, a generation unit, a database unit and a production unit.
US09508000B2
An object recognition apparatus 10 includes a candidate image extraction unit 12 which extracts a candidate image part 22 from a pickup image 21, a distance calculation unit 13 which calculates the distance of the candidate image part 22, and a candidate image determination unit 14 which determines that, in the case where a predetermined k number or more of the candidate image parts 22, the real space positions of which belong to a determination area R having the distance thereof lying within the range of a second predetermined distance exceeding a first predetermined distance and the width thereof being a predetermined width or less, are extracted, the candidate image parts 22 which belong to the determination area R are less likely to be the image parts of a pedestrian.
US09507998B2
A subject is to provide a pedestrian motion predicting device capable of accurately predicting a possibility of a rush out before a pedestrian actually begins to rush out. According to the embodiments, the pedestrian is detected from input image data, a portion in which the detected pedestrian is imaged is cut out from the image data, a shape of the pedestrian imaged in the cut-out partial image data is classified by collating the shape with a learning-finished identifier group or a pedestrian recognition template group, and the rush out of the pedestrian is predicted based on a result of the acquired classification.
US09507992B1
A fingerprint sensing device comprises a sensing chip comprising an array of capacitive sensing elements. The sensing device comprises a coating material arranged in a layer on top of the array of sensing elements, the coating material comprising a plurality of cavities filled with an adhesive; wherein locations of the cavities correspond to locations of the sensing elements, such that a cross-section area of a cavity covers at least a portion of an area of a corresponding sensing element; and wherein a dielectric constant of the adhesive is higher than a dielectric constant of the coating material; and a protective plate attached to the sensing chip by means of the adhesive. Another sensing device is disclosed, where the coating layer comprises trenches filled with an adhesive, and where the coating has a higher dielectric constant than the adhesive. Associated methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US09507986B2
An imaging system includes an optical system, an optical element, a lighting, and an imaging device. The optical system has different focus positions for different wavelengths of light. The optical element extends depth of field of the optical system. The lighting irradiates an object with illumination light of a wavelength that is designated from among multiple wavelengths. The imaging device captures an image of the object that is irradiated with the illumination light and is formed by the optical system.
US09507985B2
An imaging scanner includes an illumination light source and a hybrid illumination lens. The hybrid illumination lens includes a first Fresnel surface facing the illumination light source and a second surface having a microlens array thereon. The first Fresnel surface is configured to direct light received from the illumination light source towards the second surface to generate illumination light towards a target object through the microlens array on the second surface.
US09507981B2
A system for associating processed items with process logs, including a server computer for tracking the items and a tag reader positioned in the vicinity of a device for processing the items; wherein the items are marked with a tag that is readable with a tag reader; wherein the device produces a process log listing a commencement time of the process, a type of process performed and an indication if the process completed successfully; wherein the tag reader records identity information of the items inserted and/or removed from the device for processing; and wherein the process log and identity information are provided to the server computer to associate the processes recorded in the process log with the processed items to form tracking information for an item.
US09507977B1
A host and a communicatively linked paired tag can be identified. The tag can be associated with a tracked entity. The tag can be a low power computing device which can provide a location of a tracked entity to the host. An out of range condition can be detected. The condition can result in communication between the host and the tag being temporarily interrupted. A last location of the tag can be established. A set of hosts proximate to the last location can be determined. The set of hosts can be queried to determine if the hosts have received an advertisement message from the tag. Each of the set of hosts can be linked to a different paired tag. A notification can be conveyed to the host when the set of hosts receives the message from the paired tag. The notification can include a new location of the paired tag.
US09507972B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for a payment card reader comprising: a frame, where the frame includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface, a second side surface of the side surfaces on an opposite side of the frame from the first side surface, the first side surface including a groove configured to receive a swipe of a magnetic stripe card, the second side surface including a slot configured to receive insertion of a chip card; a magnetic stripe reader interface; a chip card reader interface; circuitry configured to direct signals from the magnetic stripe reader interface and the chip card reader interface to a microcontroller in the card reader; and circuitry configured to communicate wirelessly between the card reader and a computing device.
US09507969B2
A method for a power receiver for protecting a power receiver from being taken without permission while charged wirelessly includes receiving wireless power from a power transmitter and performing wireless charging in a security mode by the power receiver; detecting whether the wireless charging is interrupted without receiving a security code for authorization; and starting a protection function if the power receiver detects that the wireless charging is interrupted without receiving the security code for authorization.
US09507968B2
A system and method for disposing one or a plurality of flying sense electrode segments so as to physically cover integrated circuits, circuit pathways and other components on at least one circuit board to physically secure the circuits, pathways and components from probes or data interception.
US09507960B2
Systems and methods for automated data privacy compliance involve a data privacy operations server receiving information via a web server regarding an initiative and packaging the initiative information for assessment by a data privacy legal compliance function. One or more databases storing an inventory of data privacy compliance requirements resources are accessible by the data privacy legal compliance function via a relational database server to assess the packaged initiative information. A clear function generates an approval recommendation based on the assessment of the packaged initiative information by the data privacy legal compliance function.
US09507959B2
Provided is an electronic equipment, where divided display is performed and different user operates each screen, to protect privacy of showing contents. Accordingly, a permission user to whom access to privacy information made into a privacy protection object and its privacy information is permitted is set to privacy setup information. As for a privacy protection processing part, the divided display of the display screen of an operation part is performed, in case that a login user of a divided screen of one side differs from a login user of another divided screen of another side, when showing on one screen privacy information set as privacy setup information, an operation part is controlled to reduce a visibility of one screen.
US09507952B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes verifying a master processor of a system; validating a trusted agent with the master processor if the master processor is verified; and launching the trusted agent on a plurality of processors of the system if the trusted agent is validated. After execution of such a trusted agent, a secure kernel may then be launched, in certain embodiments. The system may be a multiprocessor server system having a partially or fully connected topology with arbitrary point-to-point interconnects, for example.
US09507947B1
A technique performs similarity-based data loss prevention on content from a content source. The technique involves generating multiple variants from the content, the multiple variants including a set of variants for each parsed word of the content, each variant of that set (i) including multiple characters and (ii) differing from other variants of that set by at least one character. The technique further involves performing evaluation operations to determine whether any of the variants includes sensitive data. The technique further involves performing, in response to the evaluation operations, a control operation which (i) releases all of the parsed words of the content to a destination when none of the variants is determined to include sensitive data, and (ii) blocks at least one parsed word of the content from reaching the destination when at least one variant is determined to include sensitive data.
US09507934B2
Systems and methods for providing security to the Linux kernel are described. Wrappers are provided around the kernel, thereby reducing the amount of testing needed since the new security code will be introduced only into the wrappers. This also provides flexibility in various layers. The filters may be customized per se to suit various security needs. Overhead incurred due to this is very low.
US09507933B2
Execute a countermeasure process for vulnerability reliably before an attack aiming at vulnerability occurs. A vulnerability countermeasure processing unit performs a countermeasure process for vulnerability of a vulnerable library function being a general-purpose library function that has vulnerability among the general-purpose library functions included in a general-purpose library. A countermeasure selection unit, when a call for the vulnerable library function is requested at execution of a Web application, makes the vulnerability countermeasure processing unit perform the countermeasure process for the vulnerability of the vulnerable library function, and after the countermeasure process is performed by the vulnerability countermeasure processing unit, calls the vulnerable library function.
US09507930B2
A multi-display device can interface with two or more different types of docking stations. The device can determine the type of dock and change the pin outs for a connector to interface with that dock. Once docked, the device can determine a charge status for the device and the dock to present the status to the user. Further, the dock can enter one of several modes, including a call receipt mode and an entertainment mode. The modes allow for expanded functionality for the device while docked. Two particular docks, the laptop dock and the smart dock, provide special functionality with the device.
US09507928B2
An example method includes determining a size at which to display one or more keys of a virtual keypad and determining a symbol to display on the one or more keys of the virtual keypad. The method also includes displaying the one or more keys of the virtual keypad on a computing device in accordance with a key's determined size and symbol, where a first displayed key is displayed at a different size than a second displayed key. The method further includes receiving a user input corresponding to the one or more keys and comparing the user input with a sequence of symbols. The method also includes authenticating the user in accordance with the comparison of the user input and sequence of symbols.
US09507909B2
A method of determining a conditional computational plan for a data dependent constraint network represented by a bipartite graph containing input variable nodes, output variable nodes, and relation nodes, may include specifying, using a variable node specifier, at least one output variable node for which a plan is desired. The method may further include determining, using a plan determiner, a plan from the input variable nodes to the output variable node using a backward chaining search of the bipartite graph.
US09507902B2
Techniques are disclosed for optimizing the pattern density in the circuit layout design of a circuit layer. A layer in circuit design is analyzed to define empty regions that can be filled with fill polygons (referred to hereafter as “fill” regions). Next, a pattern of fill polygons is generated. After the fill polygons have been defined, the layout design for the layer is divided into separate areas or “windows,” and a target density for each window is determined. Once this target density for the window has been determined, the fill polygons required to most closely approach this target density are generated and added to the circuit layout design. This process may be repeated with progressively different (e.g., smaller) fill polygons, until each window meets or exceeds both the specified minimum density and complies with the specified maximum density gradient. Additionally, some implementations may allow a user to simultaneously optimize the density of multiple layers of a circuit by adding fill polygons to multiple layers of a circuit design simultaneously. Representations of sections of a multilayer fill structure will then be added to corresponding layers the circuit design until a specified target density is met.
US09507899B2
A system and a method for RTL auto-integration using a spread sheet and a recording medium thereof are provided. A method for RTL auto-integration including receiving an input indicating a connection relationship between a first device and a second device through a spread sheet, matching a first port included in the first device to a second port included in the second device using a naming matching algorithm, and converting the spread sheet into an RTL code using a result of the matching, wherein the naming matching algorithm matches the first port to the second port having a port name most similar to a first port name of the first port.
US09507888B1
A device receives information that identifies a model, of a finite state machine, that includes information that identifies a parent state and sub-states of the parent state. The device generates a data structure that designates an enumerated data type associated with the parent state, where the enumerated data type includes values corresponding to the sub-states. The device executes the model, based on the data structure, and monitors operation of the finite state machine and state transitions among some of the sub-states. The device detects, based on the state transitions, a change in an active sub-state that represents a particular sub-state, of the sub-states, that is active at a particular time during execution of the model. The device provides state transition information that identifies changes in the active sub-state over time.
US09507879B2
Query formation and modification techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, a query is received that is formed in a text field as a phrase in a human-readable language that includes a visual indicator that represents a missing term that is a subject of the query. Based on the query, a defined database is searched, and one or more modified versions of the phrase are presented that replace the visual indicator with a respective result of the searching. In addition, one or more options are presented that are selectable to automatically complete the phrase as a sentence in the human-readable language.
US09507869B2
The present invention relates to platforms, systems, and application methods for data exchanges between systems based on data tag. The platform for data exchange between systems includes a service management system, a data tag management systems, an application terminal, and a service resource system. The data tag management system obtains service resource information from the service management system based on different applications, and generates data tags. The application terminal obtains the corresponding service resource information from the data tag, interacts with the service management system to obtain service result, thus achieving a variety of service applications. The disclosed system and method can effectively integrate a range of services, facilitate inter-system data exchanges, and improve user experiences, which allow tag data to be applied among the larger scale commercial applications. The disclosed systems and methods are easy to implement and have low implementation costs.
US09507862B2
Various techniques for chronology based content processing are disclosed herein. For example, in one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content containing a plurality of facts and determining a subject and a chronological value for each of the facts contained in the content. The subject includes at least one of a person, a place, an object, or an event, and wherein the chronological value includes at least a date. The method also includes assembling the facts in the content based on the determined subjects and corresponding chronological values for the individual facts.
US09507860B1
Systems, methods, and media for identifying content are provided. In some implementations, systems for identifying content are provided, the systems comprising: at least one hardware processor that: receives content having audio; generates a representation of the audio of the content; performs a first database search based on the representation; performs a second database search based on text corresponding to words that are sung or spoken in the content; responsive to determining that the first database search yielded a match and the second database search yielded a match, causes a first indication that the content contains a known performance of known content to be output; and responsive to determining that the first database search failed to yield a match and the second database search yielded a match, causes a second indication that the content contains an unknown performance of known content to be output.
